Registry hive corrupted twice in 3 days

[Andrei Badea]

Hi all,

three days ago the SYSTEM registry hive got corrupted (I was trying to
install new drivers for my soundcard, the install program uninstalled the
old drivers and restarted twice, after the second restart the hive was
corrupted), so I reinstalled. Today I powered on the computer and Windows
refused to start because of corrupted SOFTWARE hive. Before that I had
powered off the computer in a completely regular way, so I don't know why
this happened.

I don't think it's just a coincidence. I've been working with W2K about two
years now and I've never had a corrupted registry, until now (twice in three
days). But I checked the disk and it's OK, and I have no viruses (at least
my - updated - AV says that). Any ideas what else could cause registry
corruption?

Thanks,

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Andrei

Faulty RAM might result in a corrupted registry. If, for some reason, a 0
becomes a 1 in memory, and the memory content is written to disk while
shutting down, this might very well result in an unreadable registry hive
next time you start the computer.

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[Darrel]

I don't think it's just a coincidence. I've been working with W2K about two
years now and I've never had a corrupted registry, until now (twice in three
days). But I checked the disk and it's OK, and I have no viruses (at least
my - updated - AV says that). Any ideas what else could cause registry
corruption?

Thanks,

My last corrupted registry occured two weeks ago after I had done a
scheduled defrag the night before. That's the only thing I could think
of to lay the blame on. Since then I have been diligently making
registry backups.