XP on packard bell wont load, cannot seem to get xp disk to work

[bliceheart]

apoligys if this is in wrong section

 

xp on the laptop goes to the loading screen and no further before after about 3 mins it blue screens then comes up with the error message

 

" Stop: 0xc0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config , "

 

so i desided to try and recover windows from a XP instalation disk (recover or fresh instail i dont care) but it does not want to boot from the cd,

 

i have it set at bios to boot from the cd, but it doesnt and times out trying to boot from the hard disk again.

 

when i have the xp disk in, i cannot acsess the bios...

 

is there a way to get it working agian without buying a new hardrive,

 

(i do not know if there have been any problems with the disk drive prior to me getting the laptop)

[Dalo Harkin]

Leave the Windows OS disk out for now

 

Enter the BIOS change the first boot device to CD/DVDROM and then SAVE and EXIT the BIOS.

re enter the BIOS and see if the first boot device is still set as the CD/DVDROM if it is then put the OS disk in and then exit - it should boot from the CD/DVDROM

Are you using an ATA disk or an SATA disk as if its SATA you need to have the MOBO drivers on a floppy mid way into the install