I'm leaning towards reloading this computer, but wanted to check to make sure there's nothing I can do.
I've got a friends system who's kid loaded a game on her machine without her permission. The game never would never finish loading and the install had to be cancelled. Next time the machine was rebooted, the windows XP screen comes up, then a blue screen with the following:
stop: c0000218 -{registry file failure}
registry cannot load the Hive (file)
/systemroot/system32/config/software
or its log or alternate
it is corrupt, absent, or cannot writable
It then does a physical memory dump and says to contact the system admin for further assistance.
Anything I can try, or should I just reload it? I've read up on Microsoft.com, but don't see anythign that helps me if I can't load Windows at all.
I've got a friends system who's kid loaded a game on her machine without her permission. The game never would never finish loading and the install had to be cancelled. Next time the machine was rebooted, the windows XP screen comes up, then a blue screen with the following:
stop: c0000218 -{registry file failure}
registry cannot load the Hive (file)
/systemroot/system32/config/software
or its log or alternate
it is corrupt, absent, or cannot writable
It then does a physical memory dump and says to contact the system admin for further assistance.
Anything I can try, or should I just reload it? I've read up on Microsoft.com, but don't see anythign that helps me if I can't load Windows at all.