I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY "SFC" BUT WHEN I TYPED IT IN THE COMPUTER SAYS THE COMMAND IS NOT RECOGNIZED. I AM REALLY STUCK WITH THIS. HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO NEXT.
while there is a supposed fix, i have never heard of anyone actually managing to recover from the problem, a corrupted registry..
i think that you are going to have to do a clean reinstall of win xp et al..
according to microsoft, the problem with the corrupted registry usually happens when the computer is shut down while something is still writing to the registry..
i have never run into the problem with the corrupted registry BSOD, but i used to frequently see messages in my logs saying that my user profile could not be unloaded from the registry when the computer was shutting down:
"Windows saved user XYZ\XYZ registry while an application or service was still using the
registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The
registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.
This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to
run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at.."
there is a utility that addresses this problem, and maybe it will help to avoid the problem with the corrupted registry..
Denny Denham
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Step-by-step instructions are here.
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Denny Denham
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Set your CD-ROM drive as the first boot device in BIOS then restart the system with the XP Reinstallation CD in the drive. See this.
Message Edited by Denny Denham on 09-29-2005 09:53 AM
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WHEN I GET INTO THE RECOVERY MODE & TYPE IN ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS STEP BY STEP I GET "THE SYSTEM CANNOT FIND THE FILE OR DIRECTORY SPECIFIED"
THE INSTRUCTIONS THEN SAY TO BOOK FROM A DIFFERENT O/S CD BUT I ONLY HAVE THE ONE FOR XP. NOW WHAT?
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Message Edited by redwolfe_98 on 09-29-2005 09:58 PM
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Message Edited by npd424 on 09-29-2005 02:05 PM