XP Pro boot problems

[Billy]

As soon as the Win XP pro splash screen comes up, it runs checkdisk,
reboots and starts with the "windows registry recovery" message that
says"One of the files containing the System's Registry had to be
recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was
successful". It doesn't stay recovered though. The event log entry
follows below this message. Other times, I get the blue screen
"Registry cannot load the hive file, systemroot/system 32 config or it's
log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable STOP C0000218
registry file failure". Other times, I get the black screen, but it
will not start normal, last known good, or safe. I have symantec goback
installed and sometimes I can use it to start when it will not start any
other way. Goback is supposed to revert the HD back to when it was
working, and it does, but the fix does not stay fixed. At next boot, it
may start normally or any of the previously mentioned boot problems may
occur. After it boots, everything works o.k.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 6/11/2004
Time: 9:41:09 AM
User: N/A
Computer: (Deleted by me)
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is PROGRAMS DISK.


One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 8 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 8 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 8 unused security descriptors.

78140128 KB total disk space.
18360780 KB in 25554 files.
7528 KB in 1874 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
103508 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
59668312 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
19535032 total allocation units on disk.
14917078 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
06 89 00 00 2f 6b 00 00 d9 84 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..../k..........
0c 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
4a 8b 36 03 00 00 00 00 58 93 33 09 00 00 00 00 J.6.....X.3.....
ee f1 db 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a4 bd 4b 16 00 00 00 00 ..........K.....
c0 e6 1e cb 00 00 00 00 d2 63 00 00 00 00 00 00 .........c......
00 30 a7 60 04 00 00 00 52 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 .0.`....R.......

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



Any help or ideas appreciated.

 

[MGGP]

See this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;830084

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi Billy,
See:-
'How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from
starting'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Billy]

See this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;830084

Thanks, but I'm not installing and the computer is new and worked well
for two weeks. I saw this article before and decided that it didn't
apply to my problem. I'm convinced that the registry has problems, but
can't see why goback can only temporarily fix it. It is an OEM version
and I am trying not to have to start over installing everything after
using the restore disk. I appreciate your try. Thank you.

 

[Billy]

Hi Billy,
See:-
'How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from
starting'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

I read that article before so I should have mentioned that mine is an
OEM version and I only have a restore disk. I failed to give you that
info. I appreciate your try.