kaotikvizion
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Im working on my dads comp it was acting erratic & now it comes to a screen which says
STOP: c0000218 {REGISTRY FILE FAILURE}
THE REGISTRY CANNOT LOAD THE HIVE:
\SYSTEMROOT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SECURITY
OR ITS LOG OR ALTERNATE.
IT IS CORRUPT, ABSENT OR UNWRITTABLE.
is there anything I can do? I tried to repair using FIXMBR, thats what I thought it was... I have an installation cd & can repair. should I just format drive & reinstall? is that possible even? ...lol... if not, I have a known good HDD running windows XP home SP2 could I just replace they messed up drive with this known good drive? (old drive was running XP PRO tho, if that makes a difference)
Thanks for the help in advance 8D
STOP: c0000218 {REGISTRY FILE FAILURE}
THE REGISTRY CANNOT LOAD THE HIVE:
\SYSTEMROOT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SECURITY
OR ITS LOG OR ALTERNATE.
IT IS CORRUPT, ABSENT OR UNWRITTABLE.
is there anything I can do? I tried to repair using FIXMBR, thats what I thought it was... I have an installation cd & can repair. should I just format drive & reinstall? is that possible even? ...lol... if not, I have a known good HDD running windows XP home SP2 could I just replace they messed up drive with this known good drive? (old drive was running XP PRO tho, if that makes a difference)
Thanks for the help in advance 8D