Windows woun't load (new problem not on here)

[Guest]

I have been gone for a couple days, and I tryed to start my computer today
I start it up then it comes to a screen that gives me 5 choices
safe mod
safe mode with networkin
safe mode with command promp
last known good configuratio
start windows norma
I have tryed all of them and they all load up through the normal screens, then just before the windows password screen would normaly come up,a blue screen comes up and sayes somthing like this
Error
systemroot\system32\config\SOFTWAR
corrupt,absent or unreadabl
I've read all over the microsoft help and nothing comes close to fixing this. I'v tryed to reinstal windows, I changed it so that the cd drive boots first(I have the windows xp professional cd in the drive), but then when I try to start it, it has an error. I forget exactly, but I remeber it is somthing about inserting a cd then press enter.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have been gone for a couple days, and I tryed to start my computer
today.
I start it up then it comes to a screen that gives me 5 choices:
safe mode
safe mode with networking
safe mode with command prompt
last known good configuration
start windows normal
I have tryed all of them and they all load up through the normal
screens, then just before the windows password screen would normaly
come up,a blue screen comes up and sayes somthing like this:
Error:
systemroot\system32\config\SOFTWARE
corrupt,absent or unreadable
I've read all over the microsoft help and nothing comes close to
fixing this. I'v tryed to reinstal windows, I changed it so that the
cd drive boots first(I have the windows xp professional cd in the
drive), but then when I try to start it, it has an error. I forget
exactly, but I remeber it is somthing about inserting a cd then press
enter.

Ick. That sounds like the SOFTWARE portion of your registry has become
corrupted.

To be truthful, I have ran across this only twice - I could not recover. I
ghosted the machine for the data, reinstalled, copied the data back and
moved on. In both of the two cases I also had to replace the hard drive.
(Physically bad.)