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BSOD 7B, The Long Nightmare...
Hi Everybody, I'm a lurker making my first post (cry for help)....
This all happened after the system unexpected shut down during a power failure.
Details as follows:
System boots up to the Windows 7 splash screen then restarts.
Selecting the "Don't restart on failure" option produces a blue screen with
7B and 0xc0000034 as the pertinent data.
Selecting the "Generate bootlog" option fails to produce an ntbtlog.txt, so the failure is before driver loading?
Cannot boot into Safe Mode either.
NO FRIGGIN' RESTORE POINTS!!!!!!!!! (Yes, they HAD been there).
Booting to WinRE, System Repair says that it can't fix the system.
The last item in the details list is "badpatch".
Attempting to boot with the debug option fails to produce minidump files.
Multiple runs of chkdsk from WinRE report a clean system. All files available. File system intact.
sfc /scannow reports files that it can't repair, but IT doesn't generate a cbs.log file, so I don't know what the files are.
I've also tried copying the backup registry files and booting with those. No go.
I REALLY don't want to have to do a clean install. It will be very painful and enormously time-consuming to get back to the previous working system.
What I'm really curious about is why things that SHOULD be generating data (like sfc and the debug option generating a minidump) aren't?
Welcoming any and all suggestions.