BleepingComputer.com: my computer starts but has an error before the login screen comes

My computer is not booting correctly and even before the computer was having freezing issues(the computer would freeze up every 10/15 seconds for an instant. Before I had this problem I ran auslogic boostspeed and it said that I had a disk error and it said it was fixed but after running the auslogic scan again there was still a disk error. I have a computer running vista home

This post has been edited by boopme: 01 September 2011 - 03:27 PM
Reason for edit: Moved from AII to Vista

Exact wording of onscreen error message?

System manufacturer and model?

Do you have a Vista installation disk?

Go Start/Run...type devmgmt.msc and hit Enter. Double-click on Disk Drives...post the data now revealed.

Louis

The error meeage is: STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The NT Initial Command Process system process terminated unexpextedly with a status of 0xc0000001 (0x00000000). The system has been shut down. I'm using a dell latitude E6400 and I do not have the vista installation cd. I also can't use startup repair cuase a a login screen appears and I can't login with my ID. And I can't access the starty menu or even my destop cause the system crashes before I can access the login screen. Should I buy windows 7 and try to boot install? I think its one of my only options at this point but anything that I can do to avoid buying something would be helpful

Well...a different O/S won't solve a hardware problem.

Until that possibility is eliminated...I would forego thinking about such.

I would download/run the appropriate hard drive diagnostic...available at the website of the hard drive manufacturer.

Since the system won't boot, I would remove the hard drive from the laptop...attach it as a secondary drive to a known-good system...and run the appropriate diagnostic on the drive.

You can see who the manufacturer of the drive is when you remove it from the laptop.

Worth Reading, IMO.

Louis