Access registry remotely?

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Dave Cullen

I have cloned my hard disk to a larger one but it won't boot because of
Virtual Memory issues (reassigned drive letter). I've read the KB
article, and it describes editing the registry.. which I can't do
because it won't boot :p

I can still boot from the original HD. Can I get to the registry of the
"slave" drive's Win installation somehow?

Thanks
 
Dave

1. Start regedt32
2. Go to the window "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine"
3. Click on the root entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
4. Select "Registry\Load hive..." from the menu
5. Browse to %systemroot%\system32\config of your failing NT
6. Select the file "system"
7. Type "Test" in next window and the hive will be loaded as "Test".

Best regards

Bjorn
 
Dave Cullen said:
I have cloned my hard disk to a larger one but it won't boot because of
Virtual Memory issues (reassigned drive letter). I've read the KB
article, and it describes editing the registry.. which I can't do
because it won't boot :p

I can still boot from the original HD. Can I get to the registry of the
"slave" drive's Win installation somehow?

Thanks
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As an alternative to Bjorn's method, you can boot your machine
with a boot disk from here:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
then edit the registry. Just type ? when you want to see the
available commands. Note that the names of the various
registry keys are case-sensitive!
 
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