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| Thread ID: 105201 | 2009-11-23 04:49:00 | XP would not boot | rumpty (2863) | Press F1 |
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| 832663 | 2009-11-23 04:49:00 | My XPSP3 installation failed, don't know why, would not boot. The blue screen said "c0000218 [Reg hive failure] The registry cannot load the hive (file) sysroot\system32\config\DEFAULT" After some research, I copied the file "default" from Windows\repair to replace the file DEFAULT in the above directory, and all is well again, XP booted. Is my XP now in a stable state? Should anything more be done? What is in that "default" file anyway? - it has a date from some time ago. |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 832664 | 2009-11-23 04:58:00 | It can mean the hdd is too old / or corrupted as well. And should be replaced / or reformatted. Because it may happen again | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 832665 | 2009-11-23 05:12:00 | Thanks Speedy. The drive is a nice Seagate 500GB SATA one too, obviously not very old. Maybe the power adaptor cable (4-pin to Sata) is dodgy. | rumpty (2863) | ||
| 832666 | 2009-11-23 06:34:00 | It could also mean faulty memory. It would not hurt to do a memtest anyway. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 832667 | 2009-11-23 06:34:00 | I would suggest that having got windows to load you do a restore so that all 5 registry hives are from the same time frame.Ref MS Q307545 page 1 "NOTE Make sure to replace all 5 of the registry hives etc etc" | jinja_thom (4306) | ||
| 832668 | 2009-11-23 07:56:00 | I did wonder about the effect of restoring a bit of the registry (if that is what I have done) from a time some years earlier? Seems almost impossible for it to work. Perhaps putting an image of the drive back, from a month or two ago, would be the best idea. |
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