Re: c0000218 hive error - maybe a special case?



Sounds good.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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<rsilverst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Dave-
|
| Maybe I speak too soon - but it appears that the problem is completely
| solved, and it took almost ZERO effort.
|
| Since I have two bootable drives, I deleted the 5 registry files from
| system32\config and replaced them with the five registry files from a
| snapshot folder in System Volume Information that was one day before
| the crash (interestingly the file sizes were all the same size as the
| ones that i was replacing).
|
| Bingo.
|
| One other interesting note - for good measure, I wanted to backup the 5
| files that I was replacing, and while 4 of them backed up no problem, I
| was unable to make a copy of the SOFTWARE file because it said there
| was a cyclic redundancy error. So I am guessing it was corrupted and I
| blew it away.
|
| But I'm talking to you on the "repaired" drive right now, so maybe I'm
| in the clear.
|
| Thanks again for the suggestions.
|
| Bob


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