[All registry files gone]

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)

[All registry files gone]

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