I have Win XP pro sp1.

When booting up, I get the Windows Is Starting screen and then it turns into the Blue Screen Of Death.  Registry Error is the reason, along with a series of suggestions involving putting the system into Safe Mode and then the address where the error occurred.

When booting up in Safe Mode, I get the same Blue Screen and the same error address.

So I booted up from the XP CD and attempted a repair.  Sure enough, I got the same Blue Screen during the repair.  The error address was similar, but not exactly the same.

Is there any hope or do I have to do a complete reinstall?  And if I do a complete reinstall do I have to then have to reinstall all the programs?  (I THINK I do)  If so, I might as well reformat the drive as well, true?

Finally, I if I have to do this, I'd LIKE to do it on another hard drive so that I can access some of the information on the current C drive.  Is that possible if the registry is mucked up?

Thanks for your help.Hi, i dont know if tis help. But certainly most of the case of "Blue Screen error that suddenly pop up" come from the hardware configuration. First of all, try this first:

1) Check your RAM. If you have 2 or more, check its compatibility. Whether you using dual channel or not, each RAM must be same. For example, if you have 1 RAM 333mhz and another of 400Mhz, it will have hardware conflict later. The best possibility is to use only 1 RAM of your choice instead of using it together. Unless you are using value RAM or any RAM that comes in pair, you have to do this.

if everything goes well, try this:

2) Try checking your computer component. First you have to take out all your drive, network card or any add on component. Leave only motherboard, processor, heatsink and fans, and also RAM remain intact. Then test to boot your BIOS. If everything goes well, add your Hard disk and test boot.

** From your post, i believe at this stage, that blue screen will occured at which possibility is you need to change you hard disk as it is already damaged.

you might want to make your drive a slave so that you can backup all your data before using new drive. ^^Thank you.

The memory is fine.  In fact this PC has been operating A-Ok for 2 years.

I will disconnect the HDs and see if I can boot from the XP CD.  There is no network card, only 2 graphic cards.You don't need to unplug the hard drives to boot to a CD.
Why do you think that your registry is corrupt?
Did you make any hardware or software changes before you got the BSOD?i believe you didnt mean your registry editor corrupted right? i read some of "Blue screen" error and most of it mention about registry. But usually i didnt even use registry editor to solve the problem. It maybe mention about some clue for advanced users.
Try using another hard drive and test installing(format/repair) windows on it. If it success , most probably your hard drive lifespan expired My registry has been "on th edge" for days now since I did another repair a couple weeks back.  e.g. it wouldn't load a graphics driver and I had to reinstall Nero - even then it would freeze during a CD creation.  Plus it took all day to boot up.

I didn't make any changes to anything before the Blue Screen.

My current C drive is relatively new - barely a year old.  If I go to another drive it is considerably older, 3-4 years.

I wish there was some way of deciphering the STOP address.  Perhaps it would make more sense...e.g. whether it was  a memory problem or a registry problem.  Although the Blue Screen does say Registry Erroe.

1.  Quote from: bullwinkle on October 18, 2008, 12:57:58 AM

The memory is fine.  In fact this PC has been operating A-Ok for 2 years.

Plus it took all day to boot up.

I wish there was some way of deciphering the STOP address.

I wish there was some way of deciphering the STOP address.

I can get into the command prompt through the Safe Mode

Now it sticks on PCI Device Listing