0xc000014c Bootup issue

Hey Folks, I'm an artist in the game industry and I bought the p-6831 to have a nice game/work machine on the go. Well, I'm out of town this weekend, mother in law having surgery, and I brought it to get some work done. Well I went to boot the thing up and I get a "Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt" It says the file is /windows/system32/config/system and the status error is 0xcooo41c.

Now the Boot Manager is suggesting I insert my Vista Install disc and hit repair, but I left the disc at home thinking everything was cool with the laptop. After all I have been gaming and working on it for two weeks now without a peep. Also, I reformatted the drive, wiped out the restore partition and installed vista clean. I've tried changing the boot sequence, I've tried reseating the HD and I can't see a point to reseat the ram or processor they are both snug as a rug and seem to be fine.

Is there any way to get that system registry file from gateway and put it on via usb drive or something? I'm at a loss and just needing some help. Thanks!

 

Well Im back home now, and after several attempts to repair the corrupt registry file it still isn't booting!

Is this going to be a problem with vista? Or this laptop? My work is very important and I just can't risk losing on an unreliable OS or Laptop. Not happy.

 

Can you hit f2 on start up to get to the bios, change boot order to your dvd drive and load the gateway disk to reinstall windows? I'am sure it's not the OS or laptops fault sounds like something got deleted by accident or even a virus.

 

Thanks. Yeah I ultimately just had to reinstall kinda sucks considering how long it took me to get it all setup. Oh well, hopefully it wont happen again. I tried the repair option on the install disc about 7 times hoping it would just replace the missing/corrupt registry file. I guess it just isn't that simple.

 

Well if you did have a virus it's gone now, I got a virus once that corrupted my windows media player and other things off a site I used for a long time, I click on a side ad they had and my cpu shot up to 100% I yanked the connection but it was to late had to reinstall XP couldn't repair it, that was on my older HP.