[929] in winnt
Re: SYSTEM.ced missing or corrupt.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barbara Santorella)
Mon Sep 23 07:53:26 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:45:41 -0400
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From: "Barbara Santorella" <bsantore@rocko.mit.edu>
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To: Barbara Santorella <bsantore@mit.edu>, Don Nelson <dnelson@mit.edu>
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A million THANK YOU'S!! The machine booted.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Don Nelson <dnelson@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:55:37 -0400
>
>>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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>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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