BSOD when trying to run a system restore in safemode windows 7

bambi401

Has anyone ever ran into this issue? I'm curious as to what might cause this to happen.

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Trucido

Did it give you an error code?

markulous

Yeah, I'm curious of the error code. Does it work fine when logging into Windows normally? When was the last successful attempt that this worked? And what changed since then?

You can try a startup repair or sfc /scannow (although that's better ran in safe mode)

quickman007

Try running the built in diagnostics if you have any. Might want to try Memtest as well. A large portion of BSOD's I see at work are due to bad memory.

Pseudonym

Yeah I'd say hardware was a likely culprit at this point.

bambi401

STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\systemroot\system32\config\system
or its log or alternate
It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

bambi401

It will not boot up normally. I managed to run a decryption software on a flash drive to access the hard drive and swapped the SYSTEM hive with a Default windows 7 System Hive and it will boot up normally. The issue I sometimes run into here is that I will get a "windows is not genuine" error. So i would try to run a restore in safemode to try and grab the correct SYSTEM hive from a previous point in time - Blue screens every time

Running a system restore on a normal boot does not work because of the AV, which cannot be disabled. Only option is to run it within safemode

markulous wrote: »

Yeah, I'm curious of the error code. Does it work fine when logging into Windows normally? When was the last successful attempt that this worked? And what changed since then?

You can try a startup repair or sfc /scannow (although that's better ran in safe mode)

Trucido

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/830084

[h=5]CAUSE[/h]
This problem may occur if either of the following conditions is true:

The hardware where you are trying to install Windows XP may not be compatible with Windows XP.
The hard disk where you are trying to install Windows XP may be damaged.

I hope this helps.