Registry Recovery Message on bootup...

[jessiem25]

Hi all,

first off, I'm running XP Pro SP 1, athlon 500, Asus K-7 mobo, 80gig HD, nvidia geforce MX 420 video card

I recently started my machine and logged in, only to find a blank error message box with nothing but a red X and an ok button to push. This took me back to the logon screen. After testing many things with my IT guy, we finally ended up doing a repair installation of windows. I went back through and did all of my updates (although I didn't have to update the service pack, which I thought was odd), including video drivers, etc...

So far so good, but a few times now, when I start up the machine, I get an information dialogue box that says "One of the files containing the System Registry had to be recovered from a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful."

Now, since this recovery was successful, I'm not sure if I should be thankful or concerned. Why is the registry needing to be recovered if I just did a repair installation? Is this a sign of a corrupt registry? Shouldn't that have been fixed in the repair installation?

My machine is about 5 years old (built with a friend, zero tech support). The components are working fine, but I'm afraid that the motherboard might be failing...

Any thoughts or suggestions??? Greatly appreciated!!!

-Thanks much!
Jessica

 

[kippy13]

Go to Recovery Console and type:

cd system32\config
ren system system.old
ren system.alt systemalt.old
copy c:\windows\repair\system
copy c:\windows\repair\regback\system
exit

Recover from a Corrupted Registry Preventing Win XP from Starting

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307545

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[richyd]

doesn't sound like a motherboard problem. Might just be a corupt registery key. Try running a program called easy clean, this will delete any dead registy links etc. Also run spyware. hope this helps

 

[linney]

Any help here?

815011 - Cannot Disable the Registry Repair and Recovery Feature in Windows XP SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815011&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

814545 - Registry Repair and Recovery May Inadvertently Delete a Subset of Keys

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814545&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

http://groups.google.com/groups?sou...by+use+of+a+log+or+alternate+copy"+windows+xp

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[jessiem25]

Those links will all help for future reference everyone, Thanks!

As for now, I only received the "registry had to be recovered..." message a total of 2 times. Since then, I have gone back through windows update, updated my video and monitor drivers, as well as any program updates I needed, and run spybot and adaware.

Well, <knocking on wood>, I haven't had any problems since doing all of these. My only issue now is that since repair installing windows, I can't get back into the workgroup I was in. I can still get on the internet, print to networked computers, but I can't get into see other networked computers. This, I believe, is a job for my IT person.

Thanks again everyone for all your help!