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Windows XP Blue Screen STOP C000218 Registry File Failure After Backup

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I have a Lenovo ThinkPad W500 running Windows XP SP3.  By all measures that I know, my HDD and XP image are working fine.  Checkdisk runs clean, defragment returns good results.

I purchased and downloaded Acronis True Image Home 2011.  I am using the standalone boot disk that I burned from the downloaded ISO image from the Acronis web site.

My Thinkpad has a Hitachi 2.5 inch 7200 RPM 500GB HDD.  My backups are to an identical HDD mounted in a USB drive enclosure.

I backed up two ways:

  • I created a clone of my original disk onto a primary partition on the backup disk
  • I created an extended partition holding an NTFS logical partition on the remaining space of the backup disk, and I did a Disk and Partition Backup into that logical partition.

In both cases, the backups seemed to go well, and Acronis True Image said everything was fine.  Verify passed OK.  However, in both cases, after exiting Acronis True Image and rebooting into Windows XP, I get the same error.

The error is:

A blue screen, with the message
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 writeable

Each time, I just reboot a second time after the blue screen,  and I get a warning from Windows XP that
We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.  A
recent hardware or software change might have caused this.
...

I just tell it to "Start Windows Normally", and it boots fine and continues to reboot fine, until I do another backup with Acronis True Image Home 2011.

What is going on here?  What is the Acronis code doing that confused Windows XP after the first reboot from Acronis?

Thanks

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I understand you do the clone and the backup from the recovery CD.
Can you reproduce the problem when you do only a clone, or only a backup?

PS: I am not sure why you do both