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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: dorzee on October 31, 2008, 01:01:23 PM

Title: Windows XP Problem
Post by: dorzee on October 31, 2008, 01:01:23 PM

My Dell has windows XP and it froze up on me. It is posting the message "Stop: c0000218  UNKNOWN HARD ERROR   UNKNOWN HARD ERROR". Does anybody know how to fix that?
I have tried going on in "SAFE" mode but it only lets me in for about three minutes at a time and then bombs out.

Title: Re: Windows XP Problem
Post by: Broni on October 31, 2008, 10:05:53 PM

bombs out?

Title: Re: Windows XP Problem
Post by: patio on October 31, 2008, 10:45:38 PM

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0xC0000218: UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR
(Click to consult the online MSDN article.)
A necessary Registry hive file couldn’t be loaded. The file may be corrupt or missing (requiring either an Emergency Repair Disk or a Windows reinstallation). The Registry files may have been corrupted because of hard disk corruption or some other hardware problem. A driver may have corrupted the Registry data while loading into memory, or the memory where the Registry is loading may have a parity error (turn off the external cache and check the physical RAM).

What do you have as far as backups are concerned ? ?