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blue screen registry error
Name: bamdl Date: October 31, 2002 at 05:11:52 Pacific OS: winxp home CPU/Ram: amd 1600+/128
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I turned on my system that was working fine and I get a blue screen registry file failure cannot load hive(file) systemroot\system32\config\software or its log or alternate is corrupt, absent, or not writeable Any ideas? Of course my system restore was not enabled... Thanks
Name: Eric Date: October 31, 2002 at 06:07:08 Pacific
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Boot from the CD and reinstall of XP with the repair option. Hopefully, it will get you back and running. System restore isn't that bad after all!! You can set it not to use that much space and it will save you from times like this.
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Response Number 2
Name: bamdl Date: October 31, 2002 at 06:14:22 Pacific
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When I booted from the CD and selected repair I was taken to a windows prompt... What do I do from there?
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Response Number 3
Name: bamdl Date: October 31, 2002 at 06:18:57 Pacific
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When I boot from the CD to repair mode all I get is a C:\windows prompt.... What do I do from there? Thanks,
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Response Number 4
Name: MDK Date: October 31, 2002 at 07:00:02 Pacific
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http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
its amazing what u can find on the internet!
:-)
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Response Number 5
Name: PhilC Date: October 31, 2002 at 07:00:11 Pacific
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I do recognize this error, as I suffered the same fault message myself many a time. In my case it turned out to be a bad stick of RAM. I did try to repair using the recovery console on the installation CD the first couple of times but it told me that no operating system was installed. Sorry to say you may have to reinstall XP from fresh.
Good Luck PhilC
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Response Number 6
Name: MDK Date: October 31, 2002 at 07:08:00 Pacific
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http://www.theeldergeek.com/recovery_console.htm
and this :-)
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Response Number 7
Name: warren Date: October 31, 2002 at 07:56:01 Pacific
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MDK, it's amazing what you'll find on THIS site. This topic has been answered a ton of times before. Infact this poster asked this question a a few hours ago.
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Response Number 8
Name: MDK Date: October 31, 2002 at 08:02:14 Pacific
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i was just thinking the same thing
whilst sitting here and moaning to myself about peoples innabillity to put details of specs
BUT WHO AM I TO COMPLAIN
i only come here to help the odd person
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Response Number 9
Name: bamdl Date: October 31, 2002 at 08:31:13 Pacific
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I guess if we were as brilliant as you guys we would be trying to help rather than asking for help!!!
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