How to recover from the Registry cannot load the hive Blue Screen of Death Error

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1. malaikah said:

   i just wanted to say thanks, this post saved my sanity…and my work too.. thanks a million

   November 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
2. hstagner said:

   malaikah,

   You are very welcome. I am glad that I could save you some grief.

   November 13th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
3. Brad said:

   Thanks so much, however i still need help.
   I did as mentioned and this sorted out the problem, once i exited the recovery console the blue screen never came up and windows loaded normally, i was beyond happy at that point.
   Then after i shut down my PC and switched it on again, that blue screen, with the same error came up again
   I tried doing what you said again, but it didnt work this time

   so now im depressed again…
   im so lost on what to do…

   i dont know if this was the problem, but the pc the error occurs on is windows xp profesional and i used the recovery console on a windows xp home disc…

   December 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
4. hstagner said:

   Hello Brad,

   It is likely the differences in the Windows XP versions that is causing your problem. You are replacing files with this procedure, so you want to use files from the same version of Windows XP. Even the same service pack level. I hope this helps.

   December 6th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
5. chris said:

   Dear Sir;

   I have this error but cannot rename the system file to system.old. Gives me a access denied message. Can you help?

   Thanks

   December 9th, 2008 at 9:21 am
6. chrissie said:

   My Sony Vaio did not come with the recovery CD, it said to press F10 key and do the recovery wizard from there…. well I read the info on the screen and it said I will lose everything on my C Drive! I have nothing backed up… so I cancelled it… will it really delete it all… What are my other options? I am running Windows XP 2003 on a Sony Vaio

   December 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
7. maureenm said:

   Thanks for the information provided on this site. They works like magic. Thanks a million.

   December 29th, 2008 at 5:14 am
8. Nick said:

   YOU ARE A LEGEND THANK YOU

   January 13th, 2009 at 6:45 am
9. scott said:

   thanks a lot. You’re a super man.

   June 17th, 2009 at 12:14 am
10. hstagner said:

    You are quite welcome! I am glad I could help. Thank you for Reading!

    June 17th, 2009 at 6:44 am
11. grace said:

    I have not any word to thanks you.you are SUPER.
    FROM NC

    August 24th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
12. maggie said:

    How do you fix that registry cannot load the hive, laptop continuously rebooting problem WITHOUT THE DISK?

    September 4th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
13. Richard said:

    Wow – still giving thanks for this man.
    Works even on Windows 2000 as well – only difference is instead of c:\windows it’s c:\winnt

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

    November 15th, 2009 at 9:22 am
14. hstagner said:

    You’re welcome Richard. I’m glad that I could help. Thank you for reading Searchmarked.com.

    November 15th, 2009 at 9:50 am
15. jgilpin said:

    I followed these directions and now I get the following:

    Line 1 of the inf file \cmdcons\txtsetup.sif is invalad
    setup cannot continue

    February 3rd, 2010 at 3:51 pm
16. jgilpin said:

    Any help would be appreciated

    February 3rd, 2010 at 3:52 pm
17. kirk said:

    This procedure removed the C0000218 {Registry File Failure} ….

    but now all the loaded programs appear to be missing.

    When I open All Programs and try to launch MS-Office (Word, Excel)…. get an error stating … “this shortcut only valid for products that are currently installed”.

    Did not makes sense .. so I opened Control Panel – Add/Remove Programs … and the window is BLANK … does not show any loaded programs at all .. either frm the OEM nor mine that I loaded (such as MS-Office, Adobe, etc).

    can anyone help me out – what to do next?

    Thank you.

    March 19th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
18. Patricia @ registry clean up site said:

    Well worth being retweeted. Thank you. You helped identify errors in my PC. It was slow as ever. Will be reffering this to a lot of my friends!

    May 3rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm
19. Pam said:

    Thanks for the post on the recovery. I really thought I was going to have to buy a new hard drive and do a data recovery. Saved me tons of time. Much appreciated!!!

    May 17th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
20. lucky said:

    thanyou very very very millions time man i love you man

    May 23rd, 2010 at 8:57 am
21. lucky said:

    hey man but when i open my pc a window pop up again and agian again it says welcome to found new hardware wizard and it asks me to press next i click next it apperas again and again and either my toolbar show and my mouse doesn’t work to please please please please help me man

    May 23rd, 2010 at 9:53 am
22. lucky said:

    i am still waiting for your answer please help mke

    May 29th, 2010 at 7:45 am
23. Qamar said:

    Thanks, works great

    June 14th, 2010 at 12:24 am
24. jim said:

    Kirk.
    Re:
    your comment on March 19th, 2010 at 5:09 pm .

    Same problem here. Did you figure it out?

    June 15th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
25. geschenkideen said:

    I am trying to watch the world cup on my computer, but if I attach the beamer I always get a blue screen after a few minutes. This sucks. Are there any solutions to this problem?

    June 25th, 2010 at 5:42 am
26. assyagaf said:

    THANK YOU SO,SO,SO… MUCH, I HOPE GOD BLESS YOU…

    July 5th, 2010 at 3:33 am

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