Hi there. This is a Toshiba Dynabook laptop 64bit, 500GB hard drive with 3 partitions (boot, system, recovery), 6GB ddr3. After exhausting my options to recover this disk in WinRE using the hard drive or win 10 usb, i moved to frst64.exe Attached is my latest frst.txt I already did CHKDSK on this drive as necessary. Attempted some fixes with the previous frst scans. But this issue still remains, which is why I'm here. In the beginning of frst.txt there is this warning about the SOFTWARE hive not loaded. Even trying to copy this SOFTWARE hive file elsewhere didn't work. Copying would fail few seconds after start. I'm believing a rootkit/bootkit is behind this. 'Cause I looked at this SOFTWARE file in hex editor till the end and there's data. So I think the file is good. But I find it weird as it is 80MB! is this normal? The other big hive is SYSTEM about 20MB. That one and any other hive copy just fine. Please look at this frst log. Tell me if there is hope and what to do. Etonam
