Can't get boot process to see that there is a registry there

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Things are getting very peculiar indeed: Nothing will get my system to see
that there is a registry there. It still reports no SYSTEM file just after I
press the Go Into Windows 2000 Professional option.

I have now confirmed that the registry is exactly as it was before I made
the changes as instructed by Microsoft on their recover a registry from
Restore Console page, even gone as far as to use that 6 floppy repair
process to repair the registry to ensure that what wasn't broken before
DEFINITELY isn't broken now (the repair utility reports that the registry
has been repaired so it presumably is there, is fine and doesn't need
anything doing to it) and still the system won't boot to any registry

I also checked that the registry is one which was working before and that
the backup replacement from the regback directory I tried which it wouldn't
see either IS one which was working last June and it is (the one in the
repair directory is one which dates from before I got the computer when the
original install was done and is only about two megabytes as opposed to the
recent one which is 7.2 Mb and the June one which is 6.6 Mb. So the problem
isn't with the registry, it is with something preventing the system from
seeing it. Whatever I do, as I said, I can check by going into safe mode
boot and it shows verbose mode, goes straight past SYSTEM to check for a
SYSTEM.ALT file and then stops without reading anything from either, telling
me immediately that there is no registry.

Not that I have tried it yet but I am even beginning to doubt that I would
be able to do an in-place upgrade to XP Pro as the install process might not
see this registry.

Any ideas what might be wrong or is there something on the MS Knowledge
base about systems not being able to see their perfectly proper SYSTEM files
which might be relevant to this problem? ( I never managed to figure out any
way of checking that source and posting to the win2000.registry group
doesn't seem to be eliciting any responses while I explain this problem
under a wrong title)

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

Things are getting very peculiar indeed: Nothing will get my system to
see that there is a registry there. It still reports no SYSTEM file
just after I press the Go Into Windows 2000 Professional option.

I have now confirmed that the registry is exactly as it was before I
made the changes as instructed by Microsoft on their recover a
registry from Restore Console page, even gone as far as to use that 6
floppy repair process to repair the registry to ensure that what
wasn't broken before DEFINITELY isn't broken now (the repair utility
reports that the registry has been repaired so it presumably is there,
is fine and doesn't need anything doing to it) and still the system
won't boot to any registry

I also checked that the registry is one which was working before and
that the backup replacement from the regback directory I tried which
it wouldn't see either IS one which was working last June and it is
(the one in the repair directory is one which dates from before I got
the computer when the original install was done and is only about two
megabytes as opposed to the recent one which is 7.2 Mb and the June
one which is 6.6 Mb. So the problem isn't with the registry, it is
with something preventing the system from seeing it. Whatever I do, as
I said, I can check by going into safe mode boot and it shows verbose
mode, goes straight past SYSTEM to check for a SYSTEM.ALT file and
then stops without reading anything from either, telling me
immediately that there is no registry.

Not that I have tried it yet but I am even beginning to doubt that I
would be able to do an in-place upgrade to XP Pro as the install
process might not see this registry.

Any ideas what might be wrong or is there something on the MS
Knowledge base about systems not being able to see their perfectly
proper SYSTEM files which might be relevant to this problem? ( I never
managed to figure out any way of checking that source and posting to
the win2000.registry group doesn't seem to be eliciting any responses
while I explain this problem under a wrong title)

Have you run chkdsk /r from recovery console? If not do that.

Leonard Severt

Microsoft Enterprise Support

 

[Licensed to Quill]

Have you run chkdsk /r from recovery console? If not do that.
Yes, but its behaviour was quite unnatural: First it said it was checking
then wouldn't get past 0% then it repeated this exercise about nine times
before it finally found what it was supposed to be checking. Then it checked
it very meticulously (twenty minutes worth of meticulously) and then it
finished and on reboot gave the same error message that the boot process
couldn't find the SYSTEM file

 

[kingtran]

-----Original Message-----
Things are getting very peculiar indeed: Nothing will get my system to see
that there is a registry there. It still reports no SYSTEM file just after I
press the Go Into Windows 2000 Professional option.

I have now confirmed that the registry is exactly as it was before I made
the changes as instructed by Microsoft on their recover a registry from
Restore Console page, even gone as far as to use that 6 floppy repair
process to repair the registry to ensure that what wasn't broken before
DEFINITELY isn't broken now (the repair utility reports that the registry
has been repaired so it presumably is there, is fine and doesn't need
anything doing to it) and still the system won't boot to any registry

I also checked that the registry is one which was working before and that
the backup replacement from the regback directory I tried which it wouldn't
see either IS one which was working last June and it is (the one in the
repair directory is one which dates from before I got the computer when the
original install was done and is only about two megabytes as opposed to the
recent one which is 7.2 Mb and the June one which is 6.6 Mb. So the problem
isn't with the registry, it is with something preventing the system from
seeing it. Whatever I do, as I said, I can check by going into safe mode
boot and it shows verbose mode, goes straight past SYSTEM to check for a
SYSTEM.ALT file and then stops without reading anything from either, telling
me immediately that there is no registry.

Not that I have tried it yet but I am even beginning to doubt that I would
be able to do an in-place upgrade to XP Pro as the install process might not
see this registry.

Any ideas what might be wrong or is there something on the MS Knowledge
base about systems not being able to see their perfectly proper SYSTEM files
which might be relevant to this problem? ( I never managed to figure out any
way of checking that source and posting to the win2000.registry group
doesn't seem to be eliciting any responses while I explain this problem
under a wrong title)


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