Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file):

[Dave Patrick]

Won't exist unless you created the backups before hand. You can backup your
reg and create the ERD by going to; Programs|Accessories|System
Tools|Backup, then choose ERD, then if you check the box for "Also
backup....", then the reg will also be backed up to
%windir%\repair\RegBack
leaving the
%windir%\repair\
directory files intact as original installation.


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

:
|
| Hi,
|
| I am new to this forum.
|
| I work as an NT techie at a companie and today I had this same problem
| on a server after it had run a automatic windows update.
| As far as I can say it had upgraded a few security things for data
| access.
|
| I tried to follow your recomendation but I immediatly ran into
| problems.
|
| On my win2k server platform there were no
| %windir%\repair\regback\
|
| Could you please tell me why? I mean is there some software that don't
| run that makes registry backups or something like that?
|
| I have also checked on a few other servers after I managed to get the
| server up and running using the
| %windir%\system32\config\software.sav
| and they don't have the regback directory either.
|
| It would be really nice to know that there is a registry backup on
| every server.
|
| Hope you can help out.
|
|
| Screemer
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message199612.html
|

 

[Screemer]

Hi,

I am new to this forum.

I work as an NT techie at a companie and today I had this same problem
on a server after it had run a automatic windows update.
As far as I can say it had upgraded a few security things for data
access.

I tried to follow your recomendation but I immediatly ran into
problems.

On my win2k server platform there were no
%windir%\repair\regback\

Could you please tell me why? I mean is there some software that don't
run that makes registry backups or something like that?

I have also checked on a few other servers after I managed to get the
server up and running using the
%windir%\system32\config\software.sav
and they don't have the regback directory either.

It would be really nice to know that there is a registry backup on
every server.

Hope you can help out.


Screemer

 

[Screemer]

Hi,

I am new to this forum.

I work as an NT techie at a companie and today I had this same problem
on a server after it had run a automatic windows update.
As far as I can say it had upgraded a few security things for data
access.

I tried to follow your recomendation but I immediatly ran into
problems.

On my win2k server platform there were no
%windir%\repair\regback\

Could you please tell me why? I mean is there some software that don't
run that makes registry backups or something like that?

I have also checked on a few other servers after I managed to get the
server up and running using the
%windir%\system32\config\software.sav
and they don't have the regback directory either.

It would be really nice to know that there is a registry backup on
every server.

Hope you can help out.


Screemer

 

[Screemer]

Thankz allot for the reply..

I just have to upgrade all our servers to win 2003 instead..

Some neat automatic recovery stuff in there..
Also allready have a site lisence for it.

But this forum got my server back online for now..

Thankz allot guys


Screemer

 

[Screemer]

Thankz allot for the reply..

I just have to upgrade all our servers to win 2003 instead..

Some neat automatic recovery stuff in there..
Also allready have a site lisence for it.

But this forum got my server back online for now..

Thankz allot guys


Screemer

 

[Screemer]

Anyone know what to do if the problem comes back again at every window
update / reboot??

Seems something is really screewed in this machine..

Any automatic reg backup util awailable that lets you recover fro
recovery console??

I am going nut's on this.. Had to go back to work at 02:00Am after m
boss did a reboot without me knowing it..:


-
Screeme

 

[Screemer]

Anyone know what to do if the problem comes back again at every window
update / reboot??

Seems something is really screewed in this machine..

Any automatic reg backup util awailable that lets you recover fro
recovery console??

I am going nut's on this.. Had to go back to work at 02:00Am after m
boss did a reboot without me knowing it..:


-
Screeme

 

[Dave Patrick]

This article may help.

Possible Data Loss After You Enable the "Write Cache Enabled" Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281672


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Anyone know what to do if the problem comes back again at every windows
| update / reboot??
|
| Seems something is really screewed in this machine..
|
| Any automatic reg backup util awailable that lets you recover from
| recovery console??
|
| I am going nut's on this.. Had to go back to work at 02:00Am after my
| boss did a reboot without me knowing it..
|
|
|
| --
| Screemer
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message199612.html
|

 

[Dave Patrick]

This article may help.

Possible Data Loss After You Enable the "Write Cache Enabled" Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281672


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Anyone know what to do if the problem comes back again at every windows
| update / reboot??
|
| Seems something is really screewed in this machine..
|
| Any automatic reg backup util awailable that lets you recover from
| recovery console??
|
| I am going nut's on this.. Had to go back to work at 02:00Am after my
| boss did a reboot without me knowing it..
|
|
|
| --
| Screemer
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message199612.html
|

 

[Wayne Scott]

Dave:

Thanks a billion for all of your helpful replies in many forums. The
helped me to recover a system that crashed one week ago. However, i
appears that something really elusive and nasty is happening and it'
affecting a lot of systems; numerous recent articles on this topic.
have been smitten by it again tonight. My system is an old Compa
Deskpro that has NO SCSI devices.

After I could boot the PC again, after a week of research, I had som
application installation problems to work out; then was rolling alon
nothing much, when I saw the auto update icon in the system tray.
Eventually there were a batch of security fixes downloaded and ready t
install.

I created an Emergency Repair Disk, then installed the updates. Whe
the system rebooted, it crashed again with the same symptoms.

My system has Windows 2000 Pro with SP4.
This is getting to be very perturbing.

Wayne Scott

*This article may help.

Possible Data Loss After You Enable the "Write Cache Enabled
Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281672


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Anyone know what to do if the problem comes back again at ever
windows
| update / reboot??
|
| Seems something is really screewed in this machine..
|
| Any automatic reg backup util awailable that lets you recover from
| recovery console??
|
| I am going nut's on this.. Had to go back to work at 02:00Am afte
my
| boss did a reboot without me knowing it..
|
|
|
| --
| Screemer

-
Wayne Scot

 

[Wayne Scott]

Dave:

Thanks a billion for all of your helpful replies in many forums. The
helped me to recover a system that crashed one week ago. However, i
appears that something really elusive and nasty is happening and it'
affecting a lot of systems; numerous recent articles on this topic.
have been smitten by it again tonight. My system is an old Compa
Deskpro that has NO SCSI devices.

After I could boot the PC again, after a week of research, I had som
application installation problems to work out; then was rolling alon
nothing much, when I saw the auto update icon in the system tray.
Eventually there were a batch of security fixes downloaded and ready t
install.

I created an Emergency Repair Disk, then installed the updates. Whe
the system rebooted, it crashed again with the same symptoms.

My system has Windows 2000 Pro with SP4.
This is getting to be very perturbing.

Wayne Scott

*This article may help.

Possible Data Loss After You Enable the "Write Cache Enabled
Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281672


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Anyone know what to do if the problem comes back again at ever
windows
| update / reboot??
|
| Seems something is really screewed in this machine..
|
| Any automatic reg backup util awailable that lets you recover from
| recovery console??
|
| I am going nut's on this.. Had to go back to work at 02:00Am afte
my
| boss did a reboot without me knowing it..
|
|
|
| --
| Screemer

-
Wayne Scot

 

[hdrive]

Ok, I have made the 4 Win2000 boot disk as instructed. When I run th
first disk I get the following error:

Setup is inspecting your computer’s hardware configuration…
Disk I/O error: Status = 0000100B
NTDETECT failed

Where can I find out what 0000100B means? Will I ever get my P
running again?

Thanks in advance,

J


-
hdriv

 

[hdrive]

Ok, I have made the 4 Win2000 boot disk as instructed. When I run th
first disk I get the following error:

Setup is inspecting your computer’s hardware configuration…
Disk I/O error: Status = 0000100B
NTDETECT failed

Where can I find out what 0000100B means? Will I ever get my P
running again?

Thanks in advance,

J


-
hdriv

 

[Dave Patrick]

What is it you're wanting to do?

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Ok, I have made the 4 Win2000 boot disk as instructed. When I run the
| first disk I get the following error:
|
| Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration.
| Disk I/O error: Status = 0000100B
| NTDETECT failed
|
| Where can I find out what 0000100B means? Will I ever get my PC
| running again?
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| JP
|
|
|
| --
| hdrive
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message199612.html
|

 

[Dave Patrick]

What is it you're wanting to do?

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Ok, I have made the 4 Win2000 boot disk as instructed. When I run the
| first disk I get the following error:
|
| Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration.
| Disk I/O error: Status = 0000100B
| NTDETECT failed
|
| Where can I find out what 0000100B means? Will I ever get my PC
| running again?
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| JP
|
|
|
| --
| hdrive
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message199612.html
|

 

[Dave Patrick]

Usually means Ntdetect.com file is missing or damaged.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Ok, I have made the 4 Win2000 boot disk as instructed. When I run the
| first disk I get the following error:
|
| Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration.
| Disk I/O error: Status = 0000100B
| NTDETECT failed
|
| Where can I find out what 0000100B means? Will I ever get my PC
| running again?
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| JP
|
|
|
| --
| hdrive
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message199612.html
|

 

[Dave Patrick]

Usually means Ntdetect.com file is missing or damaged.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Ok, I have made the 4 Win2000 boot disk as instructed. When I run the
| first disk I get the following error:
|
| Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration.
| Disk I/O error: Status = 0000100B
| NTDETECT failed
|
| Where can I find out what 0000100B means? Will I ever get my PC
| running again?
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| JP
|
|
|
| --
| hdrive
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| View this thread: http://www.mcse.ms/message199612.html
|

 

[A_P_Seal]

Same thing just happened to my laptop today. This is all way over m
head, but I'm trying to understand it. Any advice would b
appreciated. THis is what I tried so far:
1. I f8'd and tried to boot in safe mode. Nope. 2. I made an ERD of
of my other PC running the same OS. No Help. Then I added the NTDTL
and NTDETECT files to the same disk and tried to boot with that fro
the FDD. No help. 3. Then I added the SOFTWARE.SAV file as well an
that didn't work because I think it went back to booting from the Har
disk because of an "invalid BOOT.INI file" message, so I don't think i
ever saw the SOFTWARD.SAV file on the floppy, (whatever that is). 4.
checked to see if I had a Recovery Console installed and I do not. An
I don't have the MS2000 install disks or CD to do a new install. Bu
even if I did, cannot afford a wipe of my HDD right now! I'll loos
months of work that I simply can't ever recover). (Yes, I'm guilty o
the cardinal sin).

I saw the info on renaming the SOFTWARE file to SOFTWARE.OLD, etc. Th
problem is, I cannot even get the thing to boot at all as describe
above to make any such attempts. Can you please advise?

*From a command prompt;
cd %windir%\repair\regback
and or
cd %windir%\repair

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

| Dave: I can get in the c:\winnt after that I have a few
| commands i can access. Systemroot command doesn't respond.
| How caqn i navigate through the %windir%\repair\regback\
| or
| %windir%\repair\ files?
| Also can you explain parallel installation where can i
| find out how to do it?

-
A_P_Sea

 

[A_P_Seal]

Same thing just happened to my laptop today. This is all way over m
head, but I'm trying to understand it. Any advice would b
appreciated. THis is what I tried so far:
1. I f8'd and tried to boot in safe mode. Nope. 2. I made an ERD of
of my other PC running the same OS. No Help. Then I added the NTDTL
and NTDETECT files to the same disk and tried to boot with that fro
the FDD. No help. 3. Then I added the SOFTWARE.SAV file as well an
that didn't work because I think it went back to booting from the Har
disk because of an "invalid BOOT.INI file" message, so I don't think i
ever saw the SOFTWARD.SAV file on the floppy, (whatever that is). 4.
checked to see if I had a Recovery Console installed and I do not. An
I don't have the MS2000 install disks or CD to do a new install. Bu
even if I did, cannot afford a wipe of my HDD right now! I'll loos
months of work that I simply can't ever recover). (Yes, I'm guilty o
the cardinal sin).

I saw the info on renaming the SOFTWARE file to SOFTWARE.OLD, etc. Th
problem is, I cannot even get the thing to boot at all as describe
above to make any such attempts. Can you please advise?

*From a command prompt;
cd %windir%\repair\regback
and or
cd %windir%\repair

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

| Dave: I can get in the c:\winnt after that I have a few
| commands i can access. Systemroot command doesn't respond.
| How caqn i navigate through the %windir%\repair\regback\
| or
| %windir%\repair\ files?
| Also can you explain parallel installation where can i
| find out how to do it?

-
A_P_Sea

 

[Dave Patrick]

If you don't have a Windows 2000 install CD-Rom you won't be able to start
the process of recovery.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
|
| Same thing just happened to my laptop today. This is all way over my
| head, but I'm trying to understand it. Any advice would be
| appreciated. THis is what I tried so far:
| 1. I f8'd and tried to boot in safe mode. Nope. 2. I made an ERD off
| of my other PC running the same OS. No Help. Then I added the NTDTLR
| and NTDETECT files to the same disk and tried to boot with that from
| the FDD. No help. 3. Then I added the SOFTWARE.SAV file as well and
| that didn't work because I think it went back to booting from the Hard
| disk because of an "invalid BOOT.INI file" message, so I don't think it
| ever saw the SOFTWARD.SAV file on the floppy, (whatever that is). 4. I
| checked to see if I had a Recovery Console installed and I do not. And
| I don't have the MS2000 install disks or CD to do a new install. But
| even if I did, cannot afford a wipe of my HDD right now! I'll loose
| months of work that I simply can't ever recover). (Yes, I'm guilty of
| the cardinal sin).
|
| I saw the info on renaming the SOFTWARE file to SOFTWARE.OLD, etc. The
| problem is, I cannot even get the thing to boot at all as described
| above to make any such attempts. Can you please advise?