Hello Group,
I need some in order to attempt to recover my system from a state where
every time I try to boot the Windows XP Home Edition (SP2) I get the
following error:

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF8991528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

The error message also mentions running CHKDSK/F and running my antivirus to
check for viruses. However, I can't even boot into Safe Mode with Command
Prompt or Last Known Good Configuration.

I can access my hard drive via BartPE, the recovery console and with my Red
Hat Linux 9 OS. I've run CHKDSK /F fromt BartPE, and it didn't find
anything wrong.

Let me give you a bit of background as to when this all started. Saturday,
I attempted to put my computer into standby and hibernate, but Windows
informed me that the "Standard 101/102 PS/2 Keyboard" driver was preventing
my system from entering standby or hibernate. I thought that it was a
corrupted driver (since I've never seen this before.)

Unfortunately, on Sunday morning I was attempting to clean up some software
that I no longer needed. So, I was uninstalling some programs and installer
some other programs. I also ended up uninstalling the "Standard 101/102
PS/2 Keyboard" driver, thinking that it would be automatically reinstalled
by the Windows plug-and-play when the system rebooted.

Boy was I wrong. After I rebooted the system I got the dreaded BSOD. I
ended up using the Acronis True Image boot CD to image my entire system to
another computer on my home network after the damage had already been done.

I had found some articles online that described how to use the recovery
consol to recover the system registry hives from the \System Volume
Information (aka System Restore) folder.

I went through all of the procedures and was able to reboot my system with
the registry backup from the C:\Windows\Repair folder. Unfortunately,
because of all of the installing/uninstalling that I had done on Sunday
morning, I no longer had a restore point from a time prior to my
uninstalling the keyboard driver.

However, during my attempts to recover my system, I discovered that only the
C:\Windows\System32\Config\System hive was preventing me from booting. Is
there some way to copy this file onto another computer and repair it somehow
so that my system will boot up again? Or am I totally hosed?

I appreciate any advice that you have to offer.

Regards,
Geoffrey Aldrich

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 05:10 pm, Geoffrey Aldrich had this to say in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Seems odd that Windoze is unable to sniff out a PS/2 keyboard and provide
the correct drivers. Maybe you can try plugging in a USB keyboard? That
*might* get you back into that toy operating system.


--
From a Wintard helping another Wintard with his Windoze Problem:
"You might also want to try one of the numerous EXCELLENT
registry cleaners, and perhaps a ram washer."
View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://linclips.crocusplains.com/index.php

I'm afraid that I just tried that and it didn't work. Any more ideas?

--Geoffrey

"NoStop" <nostop@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:e11t8s018ba@enews1.newsguy.com...

Hey Geoffrey, The scenario you descibed is almost verbatim to what happened
to my system. Right now I am responding on a "Me" system.
--
Cricketout


"Geoffrey Aldrich" wrote:

Do you have any advice to solve this? I don't want to have to do a full
reinstall of Windows. In another board, they suggested to try a repair
install, but I don't know if that would fix a registry problem. Plus, that
has never worked for me, either.

Regards,
Geoffrey

"Cricket" <Crkt@spamslammers.com> wrote in message
news:968AD908-913E-450C-B681-2BBE2F744C57@microsoft.com...