Repairing registry failure

[Kristi]

Hi--

I'm attempting to repair a stop: co0000218 registry file failure using the
Recovery program on my setup disk, following the steps outlined here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545. Everything
goes fine up to the point where I log in as an administrator. But when I type
the first line of text ('md temp') at the command prompt and hit Enter, I'm
told that 'a directory or file with the name temp already exists.' So I tried
typing the next line of code and the system returned a message saying that it
can't find the file or directory specified.

Am I following the instructions wrong? Or is this a sign that my system
failure is a hardware issue, not a software one?

Thanks for any help you can provide! This is not *at all* my area of
expertise.

Kristi

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

instead of typing 'md TEMP', try typing :
CD %TEMP%

 

[Homer S.]

Hi--

I'm attempting to repair a stop: co0000218 registry file failure using the
Recovery program on my setup disk, following the steps outlined here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545. Everything
goes fine up to the point where I log in as an administrator. But when I type
the first line of text ('md temp') at the command prompt and hit Enter, I'm
told that 'a directory or file with the name temp already exists.' So I tried
typing the next line of code and the system returned a message saying that it
can't find the file or directory specified.

Am I following the instructions wrong? Or is this a sign that my system
failure is a hardware issue, not a software one?

Thanks for any help you can provide! This is not *at all* my area of
expertise.

Kristi

Did you attempt to use the 'Last Known Good Configuration' feature of XP?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307852

or, have you tried to run System Restore from Safe Mode?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx

Just askin...