[928] in winnt
Re: SYSTEM.ced missing or corrupt.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Nelson)
Fri Sep 20 16:55:41 2002
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:55:37 -0400
To: Barbara Santorella <bsantore@mit.edu>
From: Don Nelson <dnelson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: winpartners@mit.edu
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>I have been applying SP3 to my win2k machines this week without any
>problem until now. One of my machines won't boot, it says the following
>file is missing or currupted: c:\winnt\system32\config\SYSTEMced
This message typically results from the System registry hive being too
large for the OS to load. For Intel-based systems, the initial stage of the
boot process is limited to 16MB of available memory. If the System registry
hive exceeds 13MB, an error can occur, resulting in the error message that
you saw.
This is not an SP3 problem, although SP3 apparently provided the straw that
broke the camel's back.
There is a Microsoft Knowledge Base article about this problem, but it is
old and has too much noise in it as well as a laborious recovery procedure:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q269075&
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q269075
Error Message: Windows Could Not Start Because the Following File Is
Missing or Corrupt: \Winnt\System32\Config\System.ced
The following two articles document a simpler procedure (using the Recovery
Console):
http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBF/TIP2700/rh2783.htm
2783 » Windows 2000 could not start because
%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMced is missing or corrupt?
http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=22823
John Savill / October 12, 2001
Q. How should I address the error message "Windows could not start because
the following file is missing or corrupt: \Winnt\System32\Config\System.ced"?
Don
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