Alright, my POS Toshiba laptop is starting to act up. It crashed recently and would get stuck in a bluescreen looping reboot. The error message was always too quick to read.

So I reinstalled Windows, and everything seemed to be working fine.

Today, it fucking did it again. First, the machine froze. So I turned it off (using the on/off button, since no keys worked to reboot "properly").

Now it's stuck in that frickin' loop again. But I got a shot of the error message:

Quote:
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
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or tech
assistance.
It then tries to reboot...only to hit that error again.

Am I fucked again and going to have to reinstall? I'm starting to wonder if maybe I have a bad hard drive and that may be causing it.

Any help GREATLY appreciated.
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