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Registry Error
I had left my 7 year old Acer desktop on for a few weeks when the fan started to make some louder noises. It appeared that the computer froze so I did a hard shut down by holding the power button down for a few seconds. When I restarted the PC, the BSOD screen popped up with the stop code of "Registry_Error". After automatically restarting, the BSOD screen kept popping up.
I tried getting the PC boot into safe mode but did not have any success using the usual power down when Windows starts to boot up routine. I next tried to boot the PC up via a bootable USB flash drive created with the Media Creation Tool using my PC laptop. I ran the startup disk repair tool but it did not find any problems.
Since a registry error was being reported, I thought I should try restoring to a previous snapshot just in case there was an automatic update applied while the computer was sitting idle. However, I cannot restore the snapshot because my C drive doesn't have enough room. If restoring to a previous snapshot may be the next logical troubleshooting step, how can I access my C drive to delete some unnecessary user files I have on it and make some room? I can't seem to access the drive via the command console via the bootable USB flash drive advanced utility.
Also, please let me know if there should be other steps taken if restoring to a previous snapshot is not the next troubleshooting step.
Current OS version is 10 (latest confirmed OS update before I let it sit idle was about 4 weeks ago).