The background to my problem is:-
I have an operating system installed by my employer who uses CAT client. With the CAT client they can send out regular updates when I connect using my VPN. Recently, the updates have not been carried out succesfully, and after my last succesful startup, a message in the system tray advised me to do a chkdsk. I followed the instructions and as expected the chkdsk is required on the c: drive so it would need to be restarted in order to start. I restarted and chkdsk begin, it fixed or deleted a couple of iles (My fault for not paying attention), system restarted again and chkdsk started but hangs (no HD activity) at Stage 1 20%. If I esc to cancel chkdsk, it gave me the error about a corrupt regisrty hive. Unable to start using safe mode or last known configuration. I have tried loading the windows Xp CD to access the recovery console but it doesn't see the hard drive (possibly corrupt). I have an external portable drive which connects via USB, I have set boot sequence to CD first so that I can load windows onto the external drive, so that in the end I maybe able to recover data from the internal drive before formatting and loading windows. The problem I have is that Windows setup sees the external drive and creates a partition and copies files to the drive, it then reboots and the windows splash screen appears, then a blue screen with:- STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF895A640, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).
Can anyone suggest why I get the STOP error, what could be prventing me from loading windows on to the external HD?
I have an operating system installed by my employer who uses CAT client. With the CAT client they can send out regular updates when I connect using my VPN. Recently, the updates have not been carried out succesfully, and after my last succesful startup, a message in the system tray advised me to do a chkdsk. I followed the instructions and as expected the chkdsk is required on the c: drive so it would need to be restarted in order to start. I restarted and chkdsk begin, it fixed or deleted a couple of iles (My fault for not paying attention), system restarted again and chkdsk started but hangs (no HD activity) at Stage 1 20%. If I esc to cancel chkdsk, it gave me the error about a corrupt regisrty hive. Unable to start using safe mode or last known configuration. I have tried loading the windows Xp CD to access the recovery console but it doesn't see the hard drive (possibly corrupt). I have an external portable drive which connects via USB, I have set boot sequence to CD first so that I can load windows onto the external drive, so that in the end I maybe able to recover data from the internal drive before formatting and loading windows. The problem I have is that Windows setup sees the external drive and creates a partition and copies files to the drive, it then reboots and the windows splash screen appears, then a blue screen with:- STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF895A640, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).
Can anyone suggest why I get the STOP error, what could be prventing me from loading windows on to the external HD?