RE: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.ced



I've been told that our system hive is only 2 MB. It does not seem to be
the cause of this problem. And we do not have the Promise Technology ATA66
PCI Controller. Could anything else be causing this problem?

"suzen" wrote:

> We have several Dell Precision 670 workstations that have gotten the
> following error on boot up: "Windows could not start because the following
> file is missing or corrupt: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.ced" We are using
> Windows 2000 Professional SP4.
>
> This error appears randomly. A system can be working for a couple of weeks
> before it appears. Then one day the user will be booting up and she will get
> the error. After that the computer is unusable and we have to rebuild it.
> What is causing this? How can we make it stop?
>
> NOTE: Our registry size is not too large.
>
> We got these computers for our power users because they urgently needed more
> power, but instead of helping them they have gotten less unreliable
> workstations. We need to fix this quickly.
.



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