Guest ndog37@gmail.com Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Hello everyone I have a computer that registry file is corrupt and we are not able to boot from it (windows xp home). What I have done is taken the hard disk out of the computer, wired it into a usb etnernal hard-drive, and am now running it from another computer in windows xp now I am trying to open the registry files from hardrive2:\WINDOWS \system32\config. First of all what is the name of the registry file Second How can I open this file in a registry application and change its values Maybe there is some software some computer technicians here can recommend or use that can do this If you don't know any software then dont worry replying to this thread, I have tried recovery console and no avail Thanks for your time
Guest John John Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Re: Open Registry files? ndog37@gmail.com wrote: > Hello everyone > > I have a computer that registry file is corrupt and we are not able to > boot from it (windows xp home). > What I have done is taken the hard disk out of the computer, wired it > into a usb etnernal hard-drive, and am now running it from another > computer in windows xp > > now I am trying to open the registry files from hardrive2:\WINDOWS > \system32\config. > > First of all what is the name of the registry file > Second How can I open this file in a registry application and change > its values > > Maybe there is some software some computer technicians here can > recommend or use that can do this > > If you don't know any software then dont worry replying to this > thread, I have tried recovery console and no avail You can't edit the registry from the Recovery Console. With the disk mounted to another XP installation you can use the "Load Hive" feature in Regedit. See here for easy to follow instructions: http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm Which file to open depends on what exactly you want to edit, open the files *without* extensions. John
Guest Peter Foldes Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Re: Open Registry files? See if this will help http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q307545 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. <ndog37@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1187320529.119412.142190@x40g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > Hello everyone > > I have a computer that registry file is corrupt and we are not able to > boot from it (windows xp home). > What I have done is taken the hard disk out of the computer, wired it > into a usb etnernal hard-drive, and am now running it from another > computer in windows xp > > now I am trying to open the registry files from hardrive2:\WINDOWS > \system32\config. > > First of all what is the name of the registry file > Second How can I open this file in a registry application and change > its values > > Maybe there is some software some computer technicians here can > recommend or use that can do this > > If you don't know any software then dont worry replying to this > thread, I have tried recovery console and no avail > > Thanks for your time >
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