Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations wOOdy-Soft on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
recovery console editing
- Thread starter lmwtech
- Start date
See if these are useful to you. "Editing" the Registry, I don't think is possible from the Recovery Console.
An easy to follow recovery console description when unable to start computer due to corrupt registry.
This is a layman's version of Q307545 in simple language.
There is the process of loading Registry Hives from another operating system to consider.
As an Administrator highlight one of the two following Keys, it will only be available for these Keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
These two articles in the RegEdit Help are a good explanation of the process.
To load a hive into the registry
To unload a hive from the registry
Maybe you could access the Hive via a parallel installation or using something like BartPE.
You might be able to make use of BartPE (a mini XP self contained on a bootable CD and run from CD with Registry Editing Plugins which can load Hives).
The same might be possible with a parallel install of XP.
266465 - HOW TO: Perform a Parallel Installation of Windows 2000
You can do the same with XP. Don't install any unnecessary programs just some virus scanners, keep the parallel installation as simple as possible.
Or the paragraph in this article.
"To install Windows XP to a new folder (to perform a parallel installation):"
How to install or upgrade to Windows XP
An easy to follow recovery console description when unable to start computer due to corrupt registry.
This is a layman's version of Q307545 in simple language.
There is the process of loading Registry Hives from another operating system to consider.
As an Administrator highlight one of the two following Keys, it will only be available for these Keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
These two articles in the RegEdit Help are a good explanation of the process.
To load a hive into the registry
To unload a hive from the registry
Maybe you could access the Hive via a parallel installation or using something like BartPE.
You might be able to make use of BartPE (a mini XP self contained on a bootable CD and run from CD with Registry Editing Plugins which can load Hives).
The same might be possible with a parallel install of XP.
266465 - HOW TO: Perform a Parallel Installation of Windows 2000
You can do the same with XP. Don't install any unnecessary programs just some virus scanners, keep the parallel installation as simple as possible.
Or the paragraph in this article.
"To install Windows XP to a new folder (to perform a parallel installation):"
How to install or upgrade to Windows XP
- Status