Wondering if anyone can help me. My system was working fine when one day when I boot the system, it goes in to the windows XP logo and after that an error message comes up saying: STOP: C0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file) /systemroot/system32/config/SOFTWARE or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable. Beginnning dump of physical Memory: and then it begins to count...from 1 to 99.... After counting to 99 the computer reboots itself but goes into the same error...and it keeps on repeating... any ideas. I have a PIII 1ghz, Asus AV7333 MB, 512 Ram. thanks.

ERRORS: missing or corrupt : \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM, or missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE, or Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents Windows XP from Starting http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545

Dont use the M$ fix for this... It does not always work! Boot to the repair console and rename c:\windows\system32\config\software to software.old copy c:\windows\repair\software to c:\windows\system32\config\software Reboot the PC. If your systemroot is c:\winnt the sub winnt for windows.