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capped
I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP
Member # 709

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hay guyz guess what my computer died

anyone got a scoop on this error:

STOP c(e?)0000218(B?) (REGISTRY FILE FAILURE)
THE REGISTRY CANNOT LOAD THE HIVE (FILE)
\systemRoot\system32\config\software...
or its log or alternate
it is corrupt, absent or not writable

this screen comes up every time i try to boot XP, then the system reboots immediately (the only way i got to read the error is by taking a video of the screen and freeze framing it to read that message (all those years squinting at caps of the observation lounge shiplist came in handy to be able to read it)

i suspect hard drive failure but i'm still getting OS response so i'm assuming some or all of my HD still exists and possibly it is just fuXX0r3d itself out of being bootable.. i've noticed some power supply oddities in the two or three days leading up to this crash (flickering lights, a couple random crash-reboots)

anyone know what the deal is.. i'm about to get inside it and try a CD booting OS or sticking a different drive in to try and access the old drive

i dont mind reinstalling an OS and starting fresh there, possibly with a new HD but he only thing that is keeping me going right now is the vain hope that i might get some of my data off the C:\ drive, like my art and works in progress documents, and my photo archives, which are valuable and irreplacable

any1 got any clues for me?

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Cartman
just made by the Presbyterian Church
Member # 256

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Your registry's FUBAR. Load XP's recovery console and restore the backup copy from windows\repair or wherever it's been dumped (change directory to windows\system32\config and then type "copy \windows\repair\software" without the quotation marks). Reboot.

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Guardian 2000
Senior Member
Member # 743

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quote:
THE REGISTRY CANNOT LOAD THE HIVE (FILE)

Assimilation failure. Try injecting it with nanoprobes again.

(In all seriousness, Cartman's advice sounds, er, sound. Good luck.)

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capped
I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP
Member # 709

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kthx 4 teh help guyz.. i have my xp repair CD somewhere in a box, surprised i didn't think of it first, thought this was a hardware problem..

in the end i probably will have to reoutfit the system for the erratic system performance that led up to this

maybe its time to rice out my b0x also [Razz]

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Alshrim Dax
Active Member
Member # 258

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is it a SystemCED error? If so...

There is a temp fix for this so that you can back stuff up - or get it running again.

You can restore the registry to the default settings as specified in this KB!

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=269075

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PsyLiam
Hungry for you
Member # 73

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Isn't this what that "Last Known Good" option is for, anyway? Why isn't that working?

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