I just switched to Win2k about 2 months ago. I seemed to be pretty fluent with running Win98, b ut Win2k has been a hectic lot of troubles! Today, I tried to disable the auto-login during bootup by changing the local Security policy in Administrative tools. Now, when booting I consistently get the message:
STOP: c0000218 (Registry File Failure)
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SECURITY
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
so I can't get on to check my email or anything. I'm guessing that, since there's no actual "problem" with the hardware, there's some way to get Win2k to boot again, but how? Where do people read this stuff beforehand?
Thanks for advice. I'd really be bummed if I lost all my emails and stuff.
--Ed
STOP: c0000218 (Registry File Failure)
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SECURITY
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
so I can't get on to check my email or anything. I'm guessing that, since there's no actual "problem" with the hardware, there's some way to get Win2k to boot again, but how? Where do people read this stuff beforehand?
Thanks for advice. I'd really be bummed if I lost all my emails and stuff.
--Ed
