Problem with drive "Verifying DMI pool data"

[SonicIce]

I installed some games and Trendmicro housecall then my main drive wouldn't boot any more. But I can't see how that cause the problem I have. First it gave a bluescreen after rebooting a few times. Then it said Windows cannot start because the following file is missing or corrupt: system32/drivers/nvatabus.sys. After rebooting a few more times, now finally after POST it gets stuck at "Verifying DMI pool data". I did fixboot in recovery console and that really messed it up. It changed the filesystem to FAT16 and it was showing up as 10MB when I booted on another drive. So I ran Partition Table Doctor and did fixmbr and fixboot in that program and it changed it back to NTFS and the size was correct. But still stops at Verifying DMI pool data. I can't try to get into safe mode or anything because this is before that option so F8 does nothing. It's like the boot sector in the drive got messed up.

The drive shows up in the BIOS correctly. I put the drive into another computer and it still stops at Verifying DMI pool data D:. But I can boot on another hard drive and see all the files perfectly intact on the one that won't boot :\.

I tried several things:
scandisk
new sata cable
clearing cmos
fixmbr in recovery console
rebuild partition table in PTD (Partition Table Doctor)
rebuild MBR in PTD
fixboot in PTD
removed all PCI cards
disconnected CDROM and floppy
different computer

System:
Western Digital 250GB WD2500KS
Windows XP Pro
Athlon 64 3200+
Epox 8KDA3J
1GB RAM

So why is it getting stuck and how do I get past Verifying DMI pool data 😕

 

[SonicIce]

Well I reformatted and it's fixed. Never saw anything like that before.

 

[postmortemIA]

it simply means your drive was not bootable.
"Verifying DMI pool data" is last step during BIOSPOST.