not able to load hive file
c0000218 registry failer to load hive file
physical memory dump.

this is what i get on my screen when it booths up

richard stein, January 2005

A client of mine recently had this problem. I removed the hard disk (physically and added as a slave drive in a different computer) and scanned for viruses. I found over 3000 occurrences of the Klez.h and elkerh.cav.cc viruses on this machine. After I cleaned these the machine booted fine. All the best,
Jayne Suess

Jayne Suess, October 2005

Sadly, what we have here is a corrupt registry.

If you're lucky, it may only be a dodgy IDE cable corrupting the HDD Signal. More likely to be either malicious Virus/spyware SW or hardware on its last legs.

Causes? Well, HDD's are tempramental, more so than most other components (lots of small moving parts you see).

Solutions?
You could perform Scandisk (O/S permitting) and mark the bad areas of the drive.

Run Regclean.

Roll back your system to "last known Good" restore point.

Worst case scenario, Bin the drive, buy a new one and restore your latest full system backup (you do have one don't you?)

Mick Rutherford, January 2005