RE: "STOP: c000021a (Fatal System Error)" Error!
OK... I didn't go through the whole thread, but I had the same blue-screen error when I tried to reinstall Windows by accessing the recovery partition on a Gateway running XP MCE.
Suspecting memory error, I did a shutdown removed all the RAM (4x512) and installed one 512 stick of known good RAM. Recovery started successfully and the problem was isolated to a original stick of bad RAM.
So before troubleshooting software on a C000021a blue-screen, try substituting RAM modules.
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