XP on packard bell wont load, cannot seem to get xp disk to work

[bliceheart]

hii resently got apackard bell lap top only i figure the hard drive on it is failing, htough it still is detectedat b ios, the windows xp loading screen will comeup but thats as far as it gets before it blue screens,Stop: 0xc0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config , 
but is there a way to get it wokring again without getting a new hard drive? i attemted to reinstall via XP instalation disk but it will not register, and also while the disk is in i cannot acsess the bios, i have got it set to boot from the disk first but it allways times out and then trys to boot from hardrive,

[Allan]

That's not the entire message. But assuming it's the system hive do the following:

Boot to the XP CD and select R (Recovery Console)

At the command prompt type:

ren c:\windows\system32\config\system system.old
copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config

Reboot

[soybean]

By the way, this is a duplicate post.  See http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,96628