Re: Registry Failure - c0000218

Oh boy, this is probably fixable but you need intermediate to advanced skills to fix it. I hope that you know your way around the Recovery Console and that your computer has a floppy drive for batch file processing. I also hope that you had a backup of your data!

Read here:

How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=307545

John

IanG wrote:

I am unable to boot up my WinXP (SP2) desktop machine today due to the following error:
STOP c0000218 Registry Failure
The registry cannot find the Hive(file) or it's log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent or not writeable.

The machine was working okay yesterday and was shut down okay last night. I have done nothing knowingly to cause this problem but I am unable to get the machine to boot at all, not even in safe mode. I just get the eror message and another reboot !
I have a broadband connection and have autoupdate setup but I usually turn the machine off overnight.
Anybody got any ideas what has caused this and, more importantly, how I might fix the problem ??

Thanks.

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