omg!!!! please please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!

liquidgeforce · April 14th, 2003, 03:49 PM

omg, ok this is what happened, i shut down my computer and then started it back up the next morning. the only thing is that now, after it runs scandisc a blue screen comes up that reads as follows:

stop: coooo218 (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

Begining dump of physical memory
physical memory dump complete
contact your system administrator or technical support group for further assistance

PLEASE PLEASE help me, i am not all that good with computers, so if some one can tell me what to do to get my computer working again in lamence terms, it would be great, thanx

krohnjw · April 14th, 2003, 03:52 PM

Give this a look, it appears to be pretty straightforward
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_sys32.htm

liquidgeforce · April 14th, 2003, 03:56 PM

thanx a bunch, but the only thing is it says to start my computer to the recovery counsol, how do i do this??

krohnjw · April 14th, 2003, 03:59 PM

if this is XP, then boot off of the XP CD, but instead of choosing install choose recovery. Print out that page for reference. The recovery console will take you to a doslike prompt where you can enter commands.

liquidgeforce · April 14th, 2003, 04:03 PM

idk, but for some reason it wont let me boot from cdrom. i changed the primary boot to cdrom in the advanced setup in the bios.........theres no other way to get the copmand prompt up?

krohnjw · April 14th, 2003, 04:04 PM

When you put the CD-Rom in, and then boot up, it may say boot from cd: and then press any key to boot from CD, depending on the motherboard. Watch for that and make sure you dont have to press a Key to boot off of the CDrom. If you have a splash screen instead of the POST just press escape to get rid of that graphic and actually see what's happening.

liquidgeforce · April 14th, 2003, 04:10 PM

ok, i got to the command prompt screen and idk how to get to the recovery console.........im srry, but i am pretty clueless when it comes to this kind of stuff........and i couldnt find the windows xp disc, so i used a boot disc in stead

krohnjw · April 14th, 2003, 04:12 PM

a boot disc will just take you to a DOS prompt. You may be able to do this if you have your hard drive partitioned in Fat32. go ahead and do "c:" without the quotes and then "dir" see if you see all of your files on the C: drive, if not it may be NTFS.

If it is Fat32 then just go ahead and follow the instructions starting here:

change to the c:\Windows folder.

Type cd sytem32\config , and then press ENTER

If it is NTFS then you may need to find the XP cd to fix things.

Nighthawk · April 14th, 2003, 04:16 PM

Once you boot from the CD, hit "R" to enter recovery mode in Windows setup. Then hit the option for "recovery console" and go ahead.

krohnjw · April 14th, 2003, 04:17 PM

He can't boot off of the CD Nighthawk.