Missing System Hives Cause Partition Loss in Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows registry are divided into two basic categories: System hives and User hives. The system hives store system settings, which don't pertain to any single user. The OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) selects system hive file location and name. The system hive is generally named as System.hv, but its location might bse different.

In case of damaged or missing system hives, the Windows computer does not boot up and you might come across critical partition inaccessibility situations. It might result into partition loss and require Partition Recovery solutions to be sorted out. In a practical scenario, when you attempt to start your Microsoft Windows 2000 computer, you might encounter the below given error message:

When you restart your Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, you may receive the following error message: 'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINNTSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEMced ' Along with the above error message, you might also come across the underwritten error message: 'System hive error' This behavior of Windows operating system renders all of your hard drive partitions result into partition loss situations. At this point, you need to find out the cause of this issue and achieve Partition Recovery by fixing it.

Grounds of the issue

You might face this problem if any of the underwritten conditions is true:

  • You have installed a Promise Technology, Inc. ATA66 PCI controller card on your Windows system. This problem generally takes place while installing Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.
  • The System hive in Windows registry is either missing or damaged. Windows 2000 might not be able to load registry if this is so large. This problem could take place when any process write so much data to System subkey in registry. This subkey is designed to store only information, which is essential for boot process.
  • Computers, which are based on ARC (RISC) architecture or Intel architecture could only use 16 MB of memory at this stage of boot process. System registry subkey has to share 16 MB with loader, HAL, kernel and boot drivers.
    • In these situations, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system to resolve this problem.


    But this procedure removes all of the hard drive partitions and cause more critical partition loss situations. Partition Recovery Software come for your help in these scenarios. These applications are particularly designed to methodically scan affected hard drive and recover all of the lost, missing and inaccessible Windows partitions. The Partition Recovery Software are quite easy and software to use.

    Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive and robust tool to handle most of the partition loss cases. This software recovers all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. It is compatible with Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

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