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I have a dual boot machine with XP Home and XP Pro. I installed a game last
night and was playing it when the computer froze up. (my computer can easily
handle this game) I had to restart the computer. When I tried to go back
into XP Home (where I installed the game) I got a bsod message. I noticed it
says something about an invalid file in the registry. I tried to start in
safe mode but get the same error. I then tried to use the lame last known
good configuration tool, but got nowhere. I then tried booting into XP Pro
and it works fine. So I tried uninstalling the game through the program
files on the XP Home partition, but nothing happens
So I wonder if it's possible to edit the registry from my XP Pro edition. I
don't really know what to do from here, so I think I just need a push in the
right direction.
any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Whenever you abruptly reset power or turn off the PC, it will likely
result in Disk drive inconsistencies (Errors). Sometimes a run of the
utility Chkdsk can fix them. Other times, if the Registry is damaged
it takes a process of replacing corrupted Hives with replacement or
backup copies. To run Chkdsk on a non-bootable XP instance you
would need to boot to the XP-CD and enter the Recovery console.
 
The error message you are recieving I am guessing is one that says it can't
read C:\Windows\System32\Config\filename... You can fix this error by
following the steps in this link

Recovering from a corrupted registr
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q307545&ID=KB;EN-US;Q307545

Now you can do this much easier and quicker by using your xp pro interface
and accessing the xp home partition and doing all the copying and deleting
and renaming this way then when you are done reboot and try to log into your
xp home. Also when it tells you to go to a RP folder in the snapshot folder
I would go back about 5-10 rp folders, so if your highest RP folder is RP137
then go back to say RP 130 and use its snapshots of the registry files. Good
Luck and lets u know how it goes.

Joe

Kemco Technician
 
Kemco said:
The error message you are recieving I am guessing is one that says it can't
read C:\Windows\System32\Config\filename... You can fix this error by
following the steps in this link

Recovering from a corrupted registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q307545&ID=KB;EN-US;Q307545

Now you can do this much easier and quicker by using your xp pro interface
and accessing the xp home partition and doing all the copying and deleting
and renaming this way then when you are done reboot and try to log into your
xp home. Also when it tells you to go to a RP folder in the snapshot folder
I would go back about 5-10 rp folders, so if your highest RP folder is RP137
then go back to say RP 130 and use its snapshots of the registry files. Good
Luck and lets u know how it goes.

Joe

Kemco Technician
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I should have been more specific and I apologize for that. The bsod says
registry_error then goes on to explain If this is the first time youve seen
this screen then reboot blah blah blah. It gives a stop error OXOOOOOO51.
 
R. McCarty said:
Whenever you abruptly reset power or turn off the PC, it will likely
result in Disk drive inconsistencies (Errors). Sometimes a run of the
utility Chkdsk can fix them. Other times, if the Registry is damaged
it takes a process of replacing corrupted Hives with replacement or
backup copies. To run Chkdsk on a non-bootable XP instance you
would need to boot to the XP-CD and enter the Recovery console.
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got nothing from doing chkdsk. ill keep trying other suggestions
 
Is replacing the hives like doing a restore? In other words will I lose
everything done from a certain point?
 
Yes it is similar.

Loss would be system state information, not personal data files &
folders which are unaffected. So if you had made a system change
like a pagefile setting and recovered the System hive from a date
prior to that change it would revert back to it's previous condition.
 
R. McCarty said:
Yes it is similar.

Loss would be system state information, not personal data files &
folders which are unaffected. So if you had made a system change
like a pagefile setting and recovered the System hive from a date
prior to that change it would revert back to it's previous condition.
Click to expand...

I see. I guess I will try that tonight then. I'll report on my findings.
Thanks
 
b_iceman said:
I see. I guess I will try that tonight then. I'll report on my findings.
Thanks
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I could not get any of those to work, so I just used a backup to restore
that was a month old. Luckily I save all files on a seperate partition, so
no files were lost. Thanks for your help.
 
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