Error booting up Windows 2000 Professional

[Bern2002]

I have a workstation that consistantly gets the following error when booting up:
Windows is unable to save all the data for the file \device\harddiskvolume1\winnt\system32\config\software.log
The data has been lost. this eror may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware, or network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere.

The user has to re-boot 7-8 times to bypass this error. The error message is always the same, though the path and file in question may be different everytime.

We are running Windows2000 Professional. The Microsoft site said to apply the latest service packs, which I did do, but did not seem to help.

Could it just be the harddrive?

 

[jasonwichman]

Yes, it very well could be the HD, do a through scandisk on the HD and find out. If that doesn't work do a recovery on the machine to eliminate the chance of a currupted file in Windows. If you go with the recovery, boot from the CD and choose install, then there will be an option after that that says "recovery" chose that recovery option, NOT the intial one that shows up. If that doesn't work, let me know. Jason Wichman

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