TSGL: Toshiba Satellite CD Boot Problem

[jonpan]

Hi Russ,

You could try start/run/msconfig

boot.ini
boot options
click on safe boot
re-start

Should then boot immediately to safe mode. (should...)

John
Od/G
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:44 AM
Subject: TSGL: Toshiba Satellite CD Boot Problem


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

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