Re: Windows 2000 Boot Error

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:44:08 +1100

Boot your machine with your Win2000 CD, select Repair
when prompted, then select "Command Console".

Now find out what has happened to the file
c:\winnt\system32\config\software.

"Ryan Wells" <ryan_wells01@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:112e201c3f4dc$f0528c30$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I am receiving the following error when booting up my PC:
>
> It goes something like this:
>
> error c0000218 {registry file failure} system cannot load
> registry file system root/system 32/config/software
> alternate is absent or corrupt
>
> completed physical memory dump.
>
> How do I fix this....I cannot even boot up the system in
> safe mode

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