Cannot Load Hive...again

[Guest Steven Frank]

I have a new (10 days) install of Win2k3 Standard that is giving me a blue

screen at boot saying that the hive cannot be loaded.

 

First, what options do I have for recovery (I do have a full backup on tape)

and second any thoughts on the cause?

 

Interestingly, on this particular box, which is a development server not in

production, I had this happen once before. That time I just did a reinstall

but at this point I'd like to get to the bottom of the problem.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Guest Meinolf Weber (Myweb)]

Re: Cannot Load Hive...again

 

Hello Steven,

 

Check out this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306038

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)

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> I have a new (10 days) install of Win2k3 Standard that is giving me a

> blue screen at boot saying that the hive cannot be loaded.

>

> First, what options do I have for recovery (I do have a full backup on

> tape) and second any thoughts on the cause?

>

> Interestingly, on this particular box, which is a development server

> not in production, I had this happen once before. That time I just

> did a reinstall but at this point I'd like to get to the bottom of the

> problem.

>

> Any help would be appreciated.

>

[Guest Chris Allen]

Re: Cannot Load Hive...again

 

> Interestingly, on this particular box, which is a development server not in

> production, I had this happen once before. That time I just did a reinstall

> but at this point I'd like to get to the bottom of the problem.

 

If it happened before you might be fighting some bad hardware (bad

disk??). Is the boot partition's (partition with the \Windows folder)

filesystem intact and without error? I'd first try runing chkdsk from

the recovery console to make sure that there aren't any errors on your

boot partition. There's no sense in repairing the registry if the

file system is repeatedly getting corrupted.