Windows 7 - Clean re-install of Windows 7 X64

Hi,

I recently had my system crash after a bad update for my graphics card and I've tried to re-install windows a number of times and have had no luck.

I have tried a few of the tutorials here and formatted my HDD to try for a new clean install. I get through the first part of the install, but once my PC reboots it keeps trying to load from the disk and then I get into windows boot manager. I try to select the start windows normally option and then I get an error message saying 'Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt'.

I have the original windows X64 product disk. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Welcome to the forum,

You can try this Startup Repair

You may have to run it more than once.

If you want to start over, this SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Will prepare you for this Clean Install Windows 7

Hi,

I had aleady done the HDD optimization without much luck, even read and followed the other tutorials

I eventually had some success late last night in getting windows running again, by removing one 2Gb memory stick and only trying to re-install with the remaining 2GB.

So it leads me to think that the second memory stick is faulty (it's only 4 months old though)
Going to run memtest on it and see if I can find out what caused the problem in the first place.

OK, Let us know how it goes.