Stop Error not listed on Jim's Pages (C0000218)

[Amethyst]

I am /still/ continuing the long and laborious process of troubleshooting my
'main' system. Could someone please tell me what the following
means/pertains to, as I cannot find anything even remotely similar in Jim's
stop error catalogue.

C0000218 Registry File Failure
The registry cannot load file hive (file)
\systemroot\system32\config\SECURITY
or its log or alternate
It is corrupt, absent or not writable

It then does the usual memory dump.

There is nothing unusual on the hard drive - just a clean vanilla Pro
installation (the drive is NTFS formatted, and was reformatted prior to
Windows installation).

I guess that XP and 2000 share the same error codes, but the only error
ending in 18 pertains to a SB Live, but my error doesn't begin with the
usual 0x, but C0000 - and I don't have a SB Live.

Any, and all, assistance gratefully received - I'm at my wits end with this.

--
Cassandra
Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'

Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests
of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot)
uk. Change the obvious to the obvious.
Private requests for assistance will not be acknowledged. Please post all
correspondence to the group so that all may benefit. Thank you.

[Nicholas]

How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0xC0000218 Error
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;314874


--=20
Nicholas

-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-----------------

"Amethyst" > wrote in message:
...

| I am /still/ continuing the long and laborious process of =
troubleshooting my
| 'main' system. Could someone please tell me what the following
| means/pertains to, as I cannot find anything even remotely similar in =
Jim's
| stop error catalogue.
|=20
| C0000218 Registry File Failure
| The registry cannot load file hive (file)
| \systemroot\system32\config\SECURITY
| or its log or alternate
| It is corrupt, absent or not writable
|=20
| It then does the usual memory dump.
|=20
| There is nothing unusual on the hard drive - just a clean vanilla Pro
| installation (the drive is NTFS formatted, and was reformatted prior =
to
| Windows installation).
|=20
| I guess that XP and 2000 share the same error codes, but the only =
error
| ending in 18 pertains to a SB Live, but my error doesn't begin with =
the
| usual 0x, but C0000 - and I don't have a SB Live.
|=20
| Any, and all, assistance gratefully received - I'm at my wits end with =
this.
|=20
| --=20
| Cassandra

[R. C. White]

Hi, Cassandra.

This is the first of 6 hits Google got on "c00000218":
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/49850.html

Does that solution work for you?

By the way, who is Jim?

(I've trimmed m.p.w.help_and_support from your crosspost, since your problem
has nothing to do with the Help file.)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP

"Amethyst" > wrote in message
...
> I am /still/ continuing the long and laborious process of troubleshooting
my
> 'main' system. Could someone please tell me what the following
> means/pertains to, as I cannot find anything even remotely similar in
Jim's
> stop error catalogue.
>
> C0000218 Registry File Failure
> The registry cannot load file hive (file)
> \systemroot\system32\config\SECURITY
> or its log or alternate
> It is corrupt, absent or not writable
>
> It then does the usual memory dump.
>
> There is nothing unusual on the hard drive - just a clean vanilla Pro
> installation (the drive is NTFS formatted, and was reformatted prior to
> Windows installation).
>
> I guess that XP and 2000 share the same error codes, but the only error
> ending in 18 pertains to a SB Live, but my error doesn't begin with the
> usual 0x, but C0000 - and I don't have a SB Live.
>
> Any, and all, assistance gratefully received - I'm at my wits end with
this.
>
> --
> Cassandra

[Ted]

"Amethyst" > wrote in message =
...
> I am /still/ continuing the long and laborious process of =
troubleshooting my
> 'main' system. Could someone please tell me what the following
> means/pertains to, as I cannot find anything even remotely similar in =
Jim's
> stop error catalogue.
>=20
> C0000218 Registry File Failure
> The registry cannot load file hive (file)
> \systemroot\system32\config\SECURITY
> or its log or alternate
> It is corrupt, absent or not writable
>=20
> It then does the usual memory dump.
>=20
> There is nothing unusual on the hard drive - just a clean vanilla Pro
> installation (the drive is NTFS formatted, and was reformatted prior =
to
> Windows installation).
>=20
> I guess that XP and 2000 share the same error codes, but the only =
error
> ending in 18 pertains to a SB Live, but my error doesn't begin with =
the
> usual 0x, but C0000 - and I don't have a SB Live.
>=20
> Any, and all, assistance gratefully received - I'm at my wits end with =
this.

Since you say it is a fresh instance of XP on the drive, this indicates =
either a hard drive error, or it had trouble writing the registry while =
loading it into the memory because of a faulty driver, causing a parity =
error(s). Try running chkdsk in the RC, or "a repait install". Maybe a =
driver didn't load properly from the install. Hope your XP disk didn't =
go bad.

[tsyhtema]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b307545

"Amethyst" > wrote in message
...
> I am /still/ continuing the long and laborious process of troubleshooting
my
> 'main' system. Could someone please tell me what the following
> means/pertains to, as I cannot find anything even remotely similar in
Jim's
> stop error catalogue.
>
> C0000218 Registry File Failure
> The registry cannot load file hive (file)
> \systemroot\system32\config\SECURITY
> or its log or alternate
> It is corrupt, absent or not writable
>
> It then does the usual memory dump.
>
> There is nothing unusual on the hard drive - just a clean vanilla Pro
> installation (the drive is NTFS formatted, and was reformatted prior to
> Windows installation).
>
> I guess that XP and 2000 share the same error codes, but the only error
> ending in 18 pertains to a SB Live, but my error doesn't begin with the
> usual 0x, but C0000 - and I don't have a SB Live.
>
> Any, and all, assistance gratefully received - I'm at my wits end with
this.
>
> --
> Cassandra
> Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'
>
> Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests
> of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot)
> uk. Change the obvious to the obvious.
> Private requests for assistance will not be acknowledged. Please post all
> correspondence to the group so that all may benefit. Thank you.
>
>

[Amethyst]

Ted wrote:
> "Amethyst" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I am /still/ continuing the long and laborious process of troubleshooting
my
>> 'main' system. Could someone please tell me what the following
>> means/pertains to, as I cannot find anything even remotely similar in
Jim's
>> stop error catalogue.
>>
>> C0000218 Registry File Failure
>> The registry cannot load file hive (file)
>> \systemroot\system32\config\SECURITY
>> or its log or alternate
>> It is corrupt, absent or not writable
>>
>> It then does the usual memory dump.
>>
>> There is nothing unusual on the hard drive - just a clean vanilla Pro
>> installation (the drive is NTFS formatted, and was reformatted prior to
>> Windows installation).
>>
>> I guess that XP and 2000 share the same error codes, but the only error
>> ending in 18 pertains to a SB Live, but my error doesn't begin with the
>> usual 0x, but C0000 - and I don't have a SB Live.
>>
>> Any, and all, assistance gratefully received - I'm at my wits end with
this.
>
> Since you say it is a fresh instance of XP on the drive, this indicates
> either a hard drive error, or it had trouble writing the registry while
> loading it into the memory because of a faulty driver, causing a parity
> error(s). Try running chkdsk in the RC, or "a repait install". Maybe a
driver
> didn't load properly from the install. Hope your XP disk didn't go bad.

Thanks for replying Ted, but I'm praying that it isn't the drive as it's
only six months old (fortunately it has a 3-year warranty, unfortunately I
purchased it from a company that - I found out later - don't give a flying
f*** about customer service and satisfaction. I had to RMA a CPU once
(because they'd sent me a faulty one to begin with - three bent pins and the
original customer's invoice stuck to the die! The CSR I spoke to call me a
"f**king liar" - yes that's a direct quote - and said I'd damaged the chip
because I'd decided I didn't want it and was trying to avoid their 20%
restocking fee! I had to threaten legal action to get a full refund).

--
Cassandra
Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'

Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests
of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot)
uk. Change the obvious to the obvious.
Private requests for assistance will not be acknowledged. Please post all
correspondence to the group so that all may benefit. Thank you.

[Amethyst]

Nicholas wrote:
> How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0xC0000218 Error
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314874

Thanks for replying, Nicholas, I found that article after I'd posted.
However, I'm having a little trouble (maybe you can help me here too). If
you look about halfway down, there is a section about accessing the SVI
folder - accessing it isn't a problem, however, because this is a clean
installation, I have none of the files that the article talks about because
I've yet to create any restore points. I have no Snapshot folder, just one
folder with the unintelligibly long name and RP0 (obviously because I've
created no points). This folder does NOT contain any registry information
(_REGISTRY_USER.DEFAULT, _REGISTRY_USER>SECURITY and so forth). As I don't
have these files, I cannot proceed with the repair. I do, however, have
access to another Pro system (albeit one running the Media Centre flavour),
I was wondering can I copy the files across from that (somehow) though,
having thought about it, that wouldn't work would it because obviously they
would pertain to applications the other system doesn't have installed.

Can you tell me how I go about continuing with the reparation?

Thanks

Cass


--
Cassandra
Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'

Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests
of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot)
uk. Change the obvious to the obvious.
Private requests for assistance will not be acknowledged. Please post all
correspondence to the group so that all may benefit. Thank you.

[Amethyst]

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Cassandra.
>
> This is the first of 6 hits Google got on "c00000218":
> http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/49850.html
>
> Does that solution work for you?
>
> By the way, who is Jim?
>
> (I've trimmed m.p.w.help_and_support from your crosspost, since your
problem
> has nothing to do with the Help file.)
>
> RC
>
> "Amethyst" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I am /still/ continuing the long and laborious process of troubleshooting
my
>> 'main' system. Could someone please tell me what the following
>> means/pertains to, as I cannot find anything even remotely similar in
Jim's
>> stop error catalogue.
>>
>> C0000218 Registry File Failure
>> The registry cannot load file hive (file)
>> \systemroot\system32\config\SECURITY
>> or its log or alternate
>> It is corrupt, absent or not writable
>>
>> It then does the usual memory dump.
>>
>> There is nothing unusual on the hard drive - just a clean vanilla Pro
>> installation (the drive is NTFS formatted, and was reformatted prior to
>> Windows installation).
>>
>> I guess that XP and 2000 share the same error codes, but the only error
>> ending in 18 pertains to a SB Live, but my error doesn't begin with the
>> usual 0x, but C0000 - and I don't have a SB Live.
>>
>> Any, and all, assistance gratefully received - I'm at my wits end with
this.
>>
>> --
>> Cassandra

Jim Eshelman MVP, esteemed keeper of the AHUMA.org series of pages.

And I apologise for not Googling. I know I should have done.


--�
Cassandra
Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'

Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests
of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot)
uk. Change the obvious to the obvious.
Private requests for assistance will not be acknowledged. Please post all
correspondence to the group so that all may benefit. Thank you.

[Synapse Syndrome]

"Amethyst" > wrote in message
...
I do, however, have
> access to another Pro system (albeit one running the Media Centre
flavour),


YOU LIAR!!

You don't even have a job Sarah Balfour!

They don't sell MEDIA EDITION in the UK!!

Have you got a WAREZ version????

ss.