For no good reason my laptop has stopped running. I will log in, Microsoft will look as if it is loading and then I will get a black screen. If I press F12 and change to safe mode I get partition information that runs and then the blue screen of death with c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (File): blah blah
I have tried to use the info that ya'll have posted here to no avail. I have changed my cd drive so that the windows cd will run at startup. I have waited for the "setup" screen, which has not shown up, so I cannot press "r" for recovery as everyone has suggested. Please tell me what to do. Teddi