Re: WINDOWS REGISTRY ERROR

Hi,

You need the administrator password, not the one you use for your user
account. In a WinXP Home system, the administrator account is hidden and no
password would be set. Just hitting <enter> at the prompt should be
sufficient to access the Recovery Console. There is, however, a known issue
with the admin password being blank in preinstalled systems done with
sysprep:

Cannot Log On to Recovery Console After Running Sysprep [Q308402]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308402

In those cases, you should use the 6 disk floppy set as a workaround:

Using the WinXP Boot floppy set:
http://www.rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Boot%20floppy

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"panty_dropper" <panty_dropper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A75F08D0-308E-456A-A53C-18CB43F72A04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I get this following blue screen on my laptop which has XP Home ed.
>
> STOP: C0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the
> hive(file):
> \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SECURITY or its log or alternate. It is
> corrupt, absent, or nto writable.
>
> I have gotten to the part of the Recover Console where it asks me to enter
> the Administrator Password, I enter the security password I had on the
> WELCOME screen for loging on to XP but it keeps on saying that the
> passwprd
> is invalid. But I am entering the passwprd correctly. After three failures
> at
> the password, I have to restart the laptop So I cannot even log onto it to
> try to run chkdsk/p or try to fix the registry. Anyonw know how to get
> around
> this ? I really do not want to reinstall cause I have important data that
> I
> do not want to lose ! Any help is greatly appreciated.


.

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