My user profile is not accessible
I have been dealing with several problems with my computer. A couple of days ago it worked fine. I shut down for the night. The next day I started up my computer and it would not start. On one of the times I tried to start up my computer I saw my user name disappear from the log on page. There is one other user profile which has no problems. I cannot start up windows xp pro normally or is safe mode. The blue screen error stated registry file failure. Registry cannot load the hive file systemroot\system32\config\software. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable. I found the fix for that in microsoft's article id 307545. Only now I'm getting a stop error 0xc000021a fatal system error. To which from all I have researched I should perform a repair install. There is data on the drive that I do not want to loose so I want to copy as much as I can but I in explorer when I try to open up my profile I am getting an access denied error. My profile is part of the administrator's group. The administrator's profile is still there and there is one other profile who also has administrator privileges is still there and works. When I opened the profile page for that folder the ones with access privileges are the other user and a number that looks like numbers like you would see in the registry. I have never seen this kind of thing. I am fresh out of ideas. Just in case you are wondering I have been able to access the files by logging on the system with an instance of windows xp on a different hard drive.
My system is a PC running windows xp pro. An 160 sata hdd, 1G ram, amd athlon 300 + 2.01 ghz processor. Does anyone have any clues? I'm fresh out. Thanks Jeanette25