TSGL: Toshiba Satellite CD Boot Problem

[Russell W. Coover]

A friends Toshiba Satellite P25-S5092 is failing to boot, Blue Screening
with a "c0000218 Registry File Failure" error message. It is pretty clear
his registry is messed up. I tried to boot it going to a previously good
configuration, but that didn't work. Safe mode, of course, doesn't work
either.

 

I wanted to back up the hard drive before going any further, and loaded an
Acronis True Image Boot Disk into the CD/DVD drive. The boot bypassed the CD
and attempted to load Windows. I opened Setup and made sure that the CD/DVD
drive was the first boot option and tried again. Windows attempted to open.
It was suggested that perhaps I should hold down the "c" key until the word
"Toshiba" appeared on the screen. I did that, and again it was back to
Windows. 

 

I have also attempted to boot with a Windows XP Pro disk, Windows XP Pro SP2
Slipstream disk, and a Linux Boot Disk. These all fail and the computer
attempts to boot to Windows. 

 

Any suggestions? Thanks .

 

Russ Coover