The root cause of this error has to do with the size of your SYSTEM registry
hive. There is a limit to the amount of space that's available to load all
of the drivers in HKLM\SYSTEM\CCS\Services. Under certain circumstances,
there is not enough space to load all of the drivers and the machine stops
and gives that error.
Unfortunatly, replacing the NTLDR won't do anything for this error. As I
recall, the limit for the SYSTEM hive is around 10.3meg. What you will need
to do is to boot into the Windows 2000 Recovery Console, and rename the
current SYSTEM hive in WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG, and replace it with a smaller
one from your WINNT\REPAIR hive to get booted. Once your booted, you can
load the original hive and try to find out what in your hive is taking up
the space.
Usually, you will see this when you have a large number of either shares,
printers, or LUNs.
--
Doug Allen
Windows 2000 MCSE
Microsoft Enterprise NT4/Win2k/XP/Win2k3 Setup Support
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