Vista - Vista Ultimate 64-bit: Booting fails after SP1 update.

Okay, I am going to try and be as detailed as possible but if I leave out anything important let me know.

I was running Vista Ultimate 64-bit that had neither SP1 nor SP2 on it. I tried updating to SP1 as soon as it appeared on my Windows Update (surprisingly, not preceded by the Microsoft hotfix that I only now know exists for preventing SP1 failures...lot of good that did me). SP1 installed, seemingly, without a hitch and restarted my PC.

Immediately following that, however, Windows would not boot and would crash with a BSOD every single time. I could not even use a Vista Repair Disk which I have (complete with Start-up recovery) due to the BSOD. Luckily, however, I found a fix for the BSOD: I downloaded a System Rescue CD with bootable Linux on it and followed a detailed set of instructions to mount my disk partition with Vista on it and delete a file called $TxfLog in my C:/windows/$Extend/RmMetadata/ folder which was supposedly causing the BSOD. Apparently Windows checks that file to see if the HD is messed up and Vista SP1 had corrupted it - rendering my OS Boot process FUBARed.

So...after deleting the file, unmounting my system partition, and restarting my PC, the BSOD stopped appearing but I STILL couldn't boot. I would get an error code and then it'd hang. So, after this I ran my Vista Repair Disk and did a startup repair (actually I went through a cycle of repairing, rebooting, failing to boot, repairing again...up to eight times because I was told it sometimes takes start-up repair several cycles to fix something). Start-up repair never fixed the problem. It seemingly cannot. I cannot do a system restore point from my Vista Recovery disk because the ONLY restore point it offers me is one right after SP1 installed (yay...). I also have no PC Complete Backup Image to recover from.

As you can see, my options are now extremely limited. I'm thinking the only thing I can do at this is maybe delete or edit whichever problem files are causing the boot failure using my Linux boot disk. The problem is: I have no idea what my targets are or even how to approach that problem.

Here's the error code I am getting when my OS fails to boot, maybe you can tell me what it entails: !! 0xc0000034 !! 593/325743 (_000000000000000.cdf-ms).

Also, before anyone asks, my system will not boot through the use of Safe Mode or any of its variants in advanced boot options either.