Cannot Load Hive...again

[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.

 

[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.
>

 

[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.