BSOD, Fatal System Error on Boot to Vista

1

My HP Pavilion Elite m9400t is booting to a BSOD in normal mode, safe mode, or even System Recovery from the BIOS. When I disable automatic reboot on system failure, I can see that this is the error :

STOP: c000021a {fatal system error}
The initial session process or system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x00000000 (0xc0000034 0x00106e0). 
The system has been shut down.

When I run a diagnostic from the BIOS, i see at failure on the Boot path test. Here is that error :

Error Code  : BIOHD-4
Error : Uninitialized /corrupt boot structure detected.

I don't have a recovery CD, but I have Win7 PC that I can use to make disks or bootable usb drives. I know I should be trying to boot into a recovery mode and run some repair tools, but I don't know how to get there. Any help will be appreciated!!

boot
windows-vista
bsod
asked on Super User Oct 17, 2014 by AyexeM

1 Answer

1

It sounds like your system either has bad sectors on the drive, or a corrupted boot sector. Try downloading the Ultimate Boot CD and running some drive diagnostics on it.

answered on Super User Oct 17, 2014 by Tom Damon

User contributions licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0