Well this is new....Cant Reformat

[SevenBrah]

Hi, I was constantly getting Blue screens of death and couldnt even boot up windows after a while of this. I tried booting windows from usb and always got either a BSOD or a black "windows boot manager" screen.

Saying something like

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

1. insert windows instal disc, restart comp
2. choose language
3. repair

followed by a some randomly chosen error message

file: \winwos\system32\config\system
status: 0xc0000001
info: windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing, or corrupt

I had a non reading dvd drive. So I just purchased a new dvd drive. Popped in my windows disc. It detects the disc and says "press any key to continue" but then after that, instead of loading the windows installer, I just get the same generic error message as above.

How can I possibly fix my pc?

 

[Golden]

In the BIOS, double-check to see that the DVD is the first device to boot from. It doesn't sound like it is doing that.

 

[SevenBrah]

it is, cd drive 1st device.......and in hps you can manually select boot priority by pressing esc.....I get the message that says "press any key to boot from cd/dvd" which i assume means the disc is being detected. But I still get the error message.

 

[Golden]

Is the DVD an original?