Win 2 K Won't boot because Hive is corrupted

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Tony Z

Does anyone know the answer to this?
I hooked up a Win2kPro machine to an existing network -
just for access to the internet. after a day or two,
the "client" machine will no longer boot up. the message
is Stop: C0000218. Cannot load hive.

When I checked on the MS web site, this error msg usually
refers to NT 3.51.

After the 1st time this happened, I re-loaded windows -
clean and rehooked the machine to the netork. After a
couple days, the same thing happened.

Once this error happens, the machine will not boot and
goes into a "loop". Right after the Windows splash screen
I get a blue error screen with the error msg, and it tries
to reboot again and again.

I also tried renaming "system.alt" to "system", but this
didn't work.

Any sugestions?
 
You might try the "REPAIR" option from the installation
media (CDROM, 4 floppies) to avoid the re-install but
that won't solve the bigger problem.

Perhaps you have a flaky harddrive or cable?
Perhaps you have a virus or trojan?

Consider ALL service packs before hooking back up
to the Internet (you will need to download them to another
machine and burn a CD or something.)

Machines have gotten infected before Service Packs could
be (immediately) installed and the machine rebooted.
 
Yes, I've tried the REPAIR option, and I have service pack
4 loaded BEFORE I connected to the network. No virus or
trojan was able to infect prior to connection to the
network. Thanks for the suggestions - I'm still scratching
my head though - I've never seen anything like this.

Is it possible that the server or the linksys router might
be doing something to the Client machine?

Thanks
 
Is it possible that the server or the linksys router might
be doing something to the Client machine?
Click to expand...

It is so unlikely let's call it impossible (unless they are
infected with a virus/trojan.)

Best guess is a bad drive or cable.
 
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