Re: Registry Failure - c0000218

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that you have hardware problems just yet. But the files or file system on the drive may be mucked up, something that might be fixable with a chkdsk, but don't do that yet! Try the other fix first. When you say "mirrored" do you mean mirrored as in RAID-1?

John

IanG wrote:

Hi John,
Thanks for the response. I had a feeling fixing this was not going to be easy :o(

I have not as yet been able to access KB307545 via IE - I keep getting told it is not available. As soon as I get access and study it I might be able to move forward.
In the meantime I have been reading postings to other similar/identical problems and it would appear I am likely to have a hardware problem. However, until I can get the machine up and running in some form or other I cannot begin to investigate !

Re your comment on backup, I recently purchased a buffalo drivestation for precisely this situation, but so far have had trouble trying to get the included third party "Memeo" autobackup software to give me a backup of the whole system partition. I shall have to wait and see what I can salvage from the Buffalo drive.
Alternatively, my system disk is mirrored ( 2 x 80GB) so hopefully I can reclaim my data somehow from the mirror disk, although I have no experience of doing this ?

Thanks again for your response.

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