Hello I am getting a lot of errors ID 333 in event viewer after running ntbackup on server 2003 Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Popup Event Category: None Event ID: 333 Date: 12-Oct-10 Time: 22:22:53 User: N/A Computer: ENGINE1 Description: An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the Registry. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 6c 00 ......l. 0008: 00 00 00 00 4d 01 00 c0 ....M..À 0010: 00 00 00 00 4d 01 00 c0 ....M..À 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ is there a process which is causing this continous errors ?

to add I used ntbackup to transfer folers and system state to a network hard drive

Hi, Can you backup files successfully? For detailed information about Event ID 333, please refer to the following article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/10/30/troubleshooting-event-id-333-errors.aspx Tim Quan