Corrupt SYSTEM registry file

[Fpe]

Hello @Maxstar , I have the same issue with corrupted SYSTEM reg file on windows 10. Would you try to fix my registry hive, thanks!

 

[Maxstar]

Hi and welcome to Sysnative,

This hive is not corrupt, so please let me know which error you see when trying to boot the system. If you can boot into Windows, please follow the Windows Update Forum Posting Instructions and provide the requested files in your next post

 

[Fpe]

I got error on boot 0xc000014c File: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM is missing or corrupt
The file is there so for some reason it detect it as corrupt. I did chkdsk checks also.
The issue happen on that PC after sudden power outage . So I tried to manual fix the SYSTEM file with HiveSwarming app to rebuild it, but it's not 100% proper and the error is gone and it try to boot but then it stuck during booting win10 and nothing more happen. If put back the original SYSTEM file (I uploaded above), it show this boot error 0xc000014c again.

 

[Maxstar]

I've checked the attached hive and did not show an issue, could you please provide a new copy of it from the Recovery Environment.

 

[Fpe]

On that PC I have dual OS win 7 and win 10 , so I did boot to windows 7 and I did copy the SYSTEM file for win10 from there directly and upload it here, so do I need to get it again tru Recovery Environment now ?

 

[Maxstar]

Yes, please try the Recovery Environment!

 

[Maxstar]

I tried to manual fix the SYSTEM file with HiveSwarming app to rebuild it, but it's not 100% proper and the error is gone and it try to boot but then it stuck during booting win10 and nothing more happen.

Ah! Your edit explains a lot because you have used that tool to convert the hive to reg and back! When you do that you will lose all the permissions etc. And as the developer of that tool pointed out is that the SYSTEM hive as well as other hives are not supported!

Warning

The following hive files are not supported: (System, Software etc), as they may contian subkeys with different security descriptors. Such hives, where keys do not have the same security descriptor, cause the RegLoadAppKey API to fail. There is no way to use this user-land API with these hives.

Do you have the untouched SYSTEM hive before using HiveSwarming?