Windows 10 Installation problems after failed HD

[phospholipid77]

I have a Lenovo, newer. It was running 10. The HD crashed. No biggie because I have drives laying around.

I wiped an existing 500G drive clean and installed it. I created an installer USB from another Windows 10 machine I have. I ran the installer on the new machine and everything appears to go well up until it's time to restart. When the machine restarts, I get this message:

Your PC/Device needs to be repaired.
The operating system couldn't be loaded because the system registry file is missing or contains errors.
File: \\Windows\system32\config\system
Error code: 0x0000185

So, I go through all the steps. 1) I reformatted and attempted the installation again: same result 2) I re-created the install media and tried again: same result 3) I recreated the install media on a different USB: same result 4) I attempted with a different, newly formatted HD: same result.

I've tried multiple permutations of different USB drives, HDs, and work order, about ten times, and get the same result every time. The installer runs, and upon re-boot, I get this. If I remove the USB stick before re-boot, I still get this result. If I restart the computer, this message consistently comes up. Repairing does not work.

I think there were two occasions of getting this error when a restart gave me a slightly different error: a BCD error.

I need to get W10 installed on this machine pretty soon. Any thoughts on how to proceed would be appreciated.

 

[Colif]

Which model lenovo?

When you install, is the boot drive the only hdd in PC at time? Is this a laptop?

Have you tried resetting the bios? It sounds to me like the bios is looking in the wrong place at boot.

I wonder if your lenovo has a cache drive, that could explain why bios settings aren't being changed.