How To Fix Windows Registry Without Cd

[Marc Desjardins]

Hello all, here's my problem.

I have a toshiba P20 laptop running windows XP media center.

While trying to fix a dvd issue using the lowefilter upperfilter fix I
found here, I seem to have messed up my registry. I had made a backup
before doing the changes.

But now the laptop will give me a blue screen when it boots in normal
mode and when I boot in safe mode or using last good configuration, my
keyboard and mouse don't work.

So, I can't fix my registry using this way. Unfortunatly, the laptop
didn't come with a XP CD, it came with a toshiba restore utility disk
which tells me it will erase all my data if I run it. So I can't fix this
way.

So, I am wondering if it would be possible to download some kind of
bootable CD which would let me repair the registry? I found many bootable
floppies, but the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive.

So, I'm wondering if my only options are to either download or borrow a
full XP cd image and then burn it to use as a boot disk?

Is there any other way you guys might think I could do the repair?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide...

 

[WTC]

Hello all, here's my problem.

I have a toshiba P20 laptop running windows XP media center.

While trying to fix a dvd issue using the lowefilter upperfilter fix I
found here, I seem to have messed up my registry. I had made a backup
before doing the changes.

But now the laptop will give me a blue screen when it boots in normal
mode and when I boot in safe mode or using last good configuration, my
keyboard and mouse don't work.

So, I can't fix my registry using this way. Unfortunatly, the laptop
didn't come with a XP CD, it came with a toshiba restore utility disk
which tells me it will erase all my data if I run it. So I can't fix this
way.

So, I am wondering if it would be possible to download some kind of
bootable CD which would let me repair the registry? I found many bootable
floppies, but the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive.

So, I'm wondering if my only options are to either download or borrow a
full XP cd image and then burn it to use as a boot disk?

Is there any other way you guys might think I could do the repair?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide...

Try Booting into Safe Mode using the F8 key, then select "Last Known Good
Configuration"

A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222

 

[Marc Desjardins]

Try Booting into Safe Mode using the F8 key, then select "Last Known
Good Configuration"

A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222

Thanks for the quick answer, unfortunatly, as I said in my message, when I
boot in safe mode or using the last known good configuration, my keyboard and
mouse don't work, I have no idea why, maybe because of my modifications to
the registry...

 

[WTC]

Thanks for the quick answer, unfortunatly, as I said in my message, when I
boot in safe mode or using the last known good configuration, my keyboard
and
mouse don't work, I have no idea why, maybe because of my modifications to
the registry...

Is your Keyboard and Mouse a USB type? If so, you may have to enable Legacy
USB support or something similar in the BIOS to use your USB Keyboard and
Mouse.

 

[bumtracks]

You can search bootdisk and most likely you'll also find free iso files to
make an XP bootCD and and then do your thing to maybe restore your registry.

 

[Marc Desjardins]

Is your Keyboard and Mouse a USB type? If so, you may have to enable
Legacy USB support or something similar in the BIOS to use your USB
Keyboard and Mouse.

It's a laptop, so it's not USB, I have no idea what they keyboard and mouse
don't work, probably because of my messing up the registry...

 

[Marc Desjardins]

You can search bootdisk and most likely you'll also find free iso
files to make an XP bootCD and and then do your thing to maybe restore
your registry.

I managed to make a bootdisk, but I can't access my drives so I can't
really fix anything. It seems I need access to a windows XP CD to copy
files on my boot disk, but I don't have the CD, just a recovery CD. I am
using XP Media Center...