Laptop help

[w_howey]

Okay... Its a Toshiba Satelite A55..

Im getting a message that says it can't start do to a missing or corrupt system file. The file listed is C:/windows/system32/config/setup

It says to repair by putting in original system disk....

Problem is computer wasn't delivered with original system disk. I have the Toshiba recovery disk... but that's not doing the trick....

[ehall]

Only help I can offer is to see if you can find a system recovery disc

[lancey3]

The 'repair process' that xp has is worthless. If everything works ignore it; if not back it all up and reformat.

[ehall]

The repair process will reinstall system files and leave personal settings intact. It works fine for this kind of crap.

[ECKSJAY]

The repair process will reinstall system files and leave personal settings intact. It works fine for this kind of crap.

Yup. Find someone with a disk of the same OS you're using and run the recovery console.

[js_customs]

I'm not sure how old your laptop is but I just got a Toshiba Satellite A215 in December and I had a similar problem...It may be able to be fixed with the recovery disks, I'm not sure since my discs were at home when it happened to me and I was at college. I called Toshiba and told them what it said and they ended up having me send my computer to them to their main plant in Tennessee. They sent it back a few days later and said that it had a defective hard drive and that this was a problem with a lot of them and they fixed it with no questions asked. I would try the recovery discs first but if its not too old, you might want to call them and see what they say.
hope this helps