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Thanks for your assistance but this hasn't solved the problem. I used the first method you listed. Now before it goes to BSOD, I get the messege: autochk program not found - skipping autochk Then BSOD (same error code as before) I copied autochk from my system32 folder to the problem drive's system32 folder. No change. And I still can't figure out why the windows cd won't recognize the drive. (I even cloned it to another HDD I know works fine and get the exact same problem. so I know it's not just a bad drive)

After some file corruption, I had to run chkdsk. There were a few unreadable sectors and I seemed to have lost the entire registry. I cannot boot into any windows mode. When loading windows in any mode it gets as far as the loading screen, then I get: STOP: c000021a (fatal system error) The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000034 (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down. Also, for some reason windows installation cd does not recognize that there is a HDD present. After much searching, I believe this is caused because the registry files (and possibly others) were in one of the unreadable sectors. I put the drive into another computer (as non boot). I can access the files on the disk and cannot find ANY registry entries. I have run ccleaner and have the backup registry entries. Is there a way to restore the registry on the disk while it is hooked up to another computer. Please remember I cannot get into any mode of windows and I cannot get into windows recovery