Windows Forum

Ask something
Discussion Locked

system.alt ???

0 helpful
3 replies

by bazargan

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.
I `ve seen a system that couldn`t boot up and while it boot up in safe mode it freezing when tring to read system.alt .in normal system the size of file is near 3MB but I check it in this system and see that the size of file is about 60MB .What could be the problem with it ?the system was shutdown normally at last shutdown .

3 replies

by timthetoolman

Hi,

I'd say your user has been playing around with the registry size setting under the performance options.

In fact It probably been set too big!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/default.asp?url=/windows2000/en/server/help/sag_ntregconcepts_mply.htm

(remove spaces from the above URL)

Here is an tech note on using the file to recover with.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q151247

(again remove spaces...)

Unfortunately you may needto do a reinstall if you cant make the ALT hive load correctly. Presumably the original is corrupted... First, I'd use the recovery disk if you have one or failing that use the repair option off the installation disk.

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Tim.

This discussion is closed to new replies.