Scotia Systems Blog » chkdsk http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog Web Design, SEO and IT Tips Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:18:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 STOP: C0000218 {Registry File Failure} http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/stop-c0000218-registry-file-failure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-c0000218-registry-file-failure http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/stop-c0000218-registry-file-failure/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:25:04 +0000 admin http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/?p=54

Chkdsk saves the day again!   Encountered this error on a Dell laptop today.   The suggestion from the MS Knowledge base was to restore an older version of the registry :

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=307545

However I found when I tried to copy out the software hive that it was unreadable and couldn’t be copied.   

After running chkdsk /r  (from recovery console) it found errors and corrected them.   After that – the laptop booted fine!

I still suspect the disk may have a hardware fault, however at least it’s in a state when files can be copied off – prior to an impending disk failure/reinstall.

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