Hi! This is my first time finding help in a forum so ill try my best to describe the situation and hope you guys can help me!
So i've been using this VERY OLD windows xp machine, which was installed on a hdd, and recently i opened the machine up and give it some cleaning, i dusted everything, replace thermal pastes and replaced the old psu with a new one that i bought.
Once i've put everything together, i turn it on and it posted into the os like normal. But for some reason, when i tried to open up chrome, it froze and the bsod appears (bsod had appeared multiple times in the past), so i restart the machine, and it got into the windows xp loading screen, but after that, the screen was black, then this error appeared:
Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable. Beginning dump of physical memory.
I've looked up how to fix this error but they all said that you need a windows xp cd to boot into recovery console, which i dont have.
I tried running with safe mode and last good configuration file but neither works, they just have the blue screen with that error again.
Now it got me thinking, is this error only happen to the os? and all the files on the hdd are safe? cause if so, can i use an ssd that i already bought and install windows 10 on it, and use that to boot then go into the xp folders and fix them manually? OR just delete the xp os and use windows 10 from then on?
I've been meaning to upgrade to windows 10 for a while (hence the ssd) but i don't know where to start, cause i still want to use the hdd as storage but idk how to remove xp but still keep the files safe.
so that's the situation i'm in, i hope you guys can help me, i'll answer all questions in the hope of resolving this issue.
Thank you!
So i've been using this VERY OLD windows xp machine, which was installed on a hdd, and recently i opened the machine up and give it some cleaning, i dusted everything, replace thermal pastes and replaced the old psu with a new one that i bought.
Once i've put everything together, i turn it on and it posted into the os like normal. But for some reason, when i tried to open up chrome, it froze and the bsod appears (bsod had appeared multiple times in the past), so i restart the machine, and it got into the windows xp loading screen, but after that, the screen was black, then this error appeared:
Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable. Beginning dump of physical memory.
I've looked up how to fix this error but they all said that you need a windows xp cd to boot into recovery console, which i dont have.
I tried running with safe mode and last good configuration file but neither works, they just have the blue screen with that error again.
Now it got me thinking, is this error only happen to the os? and all the files on the hdd are safe? cause if so, can i use an ssd that i already bought and install windows 10 on it, and use that to boot then go into the xp folders and fix them manually? OR just delete the xp os and use windows 10 from then on?
I've been meaning to upgrade to windows 10 for a while (hence the ssd) but i don't know where to start, cause i still want to use the hdd as storage but idk how to remove xp but still keep the files safe.
so that's the situation i'm in, i hope you guys can help me, i'll answer all questions in the hope of resolving this issue.
Thank you!
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