for the second time in 5 days i got a blue screen during boot. c00000218 the software hive is corrupted.

any clues as to why this happened again? as i post this i booted into recovery console and im running chkdsk /r c: to check the hard drive for a bad section possibly. it's the only reason i can think of that this would happen again!

unless you have a backup, there arent too many quick ways to reliably repair a corrupt registry... have you ran any registry cleaners or anything of that nature..

A repair installation will most likely do the trick

if i follow the directions here then i get it working at least for a few days.

the results of the chkdsk are in. it found errors and repaired them. i'll perform the repair again and see if it sticks this time.

i ran diags from western digital. turns out my drive has smart errors. yay for me! so now i get to reinstall on a new hard drive and try to recover my data.

in response to this, im going to try some imaging programs. im trying to decide between norton ghost, or drive image 7. can anyone provide me with opinions on which one to use?

edit: ok so i just found out that norton ghost has drive image technology. symantec bought out drive image. is there another competing technology, or am i stuck using ghost?

Edited September 2, 200520 yr by aresgodofwar

You can also use Acronis True Image.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

western digital

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Only once ever (in like 15+ years) have I seen a failed Seagate drive (exclude the early SCSI lol) and WD is a whole different story I don't understand people that buy these

Edited September 5, 200520 yr by nimda

really? i had this WD drive for almost 10 years. i purchased in 96 i think. worked great until now. oh well. i stumbled upon a treasure trove of maxtor 40 gb drives free, so i'll use one of those