Windows XP Problem

[dorzee]

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.

[Broni]

bombs out?

[patio]

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 ? ?