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Jack
Asked: 2013-10-23 07:34:55 +0800 CST

Windows 2003 registry corrupt - endless reboot

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Windows 2003 server will show the loading screen then it stops with:

Stop c000218 registry file failure or corrupt. The registry can not load the hive \systemroot\system32\config\security

Then it start a count down about dumping the physical memory to disk and reboot itself again.

I found Error starting Windows SBS 2003 - STOP: c0000218

But the config there is different directory than mine. Is it the same step to try for recovery console?

windows-server-2003

1 Answers

  1. Booting to the recovery console to run chkdsk is an "option". However, the likely-hood of this actually fixing a problem is almost 0, so not a good option. The correct way to fix this problem is to restore from backup or reinstall Windows.

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