Blue screen of death help.

Duff

Hey guys,

We have an old (3 yrs or so) laptop that hasn't been used in almost a year. Anyway found the charger for it today and went to turn it on and was met by the blue screen. The error code it gives is c0000218 Registry File Failure. This comes up even when I try to load safe mode. Its running XP. I read online you can fix this by re-installing XP but I don't have the XP cd. Any other way around this?

Cheers.

Allyall

Might be some help HERE

Without sounding like a *******, and if you want to go the legal route, I'd download UBUNTU and install that, Especially if it's a laptop you don't really use.
If you want files off it, then you can load Ubuntu as a live CD after you have burned it, or put it onto USB, and browse the entire Hard drive. Take what you want, Then format and install ubuntu.

It's worth having a look at. :)

scuby

had the screen of death on my PC recently, re-installed windows, going to put Ubuntu as well. Only using pc for net etc. also used it to transfer files etc to hard drive before re-istalling