Re: Registry problems with SECURITY

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 07/28/02


From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:44:26 -0700


How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0xC0000218 Error
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q314874
describes a "Stop 0xc0000218" error and how to recover using Last Known Good boot.

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q307545
describes a three-step painful process to extract a copy of the registry from the System Restore SVI folder.

-- 
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
Daryll France <eunbin@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On another system, I'm getting the following stop error:
> 
> STOP: C000028 (registry file failure)
> C:\systemboot\system32\config\SECURITY
> or its log or alternate
> It is corrupt, absent or not writable.
> 
> 
> I can't boot in safe mode, nor reinstall XP.  Error
> occurs on reboot.
> 
> Is there any recourse?  Can I reconstruct or repair this
> file?  Because Windows doesn't start, how can I run a
> registry repair tool?
> 
> Thanks,
> Daryll


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