I still really need help

[Guest]

My registry got corrupted and I can not longer get into windows XP sp2.

I am running windows xp sp2 and windows 2003 on this system and have 4 other
partitions with plenty of other free disk space. I created another parition
and did a back up there.

I am a web developer and do most of my developing under windows xp as well
as school work. I do not want to lost all the sites I designed or schoosl
work.

I have copyied boot.ini, ntdlr and ntdetect.com to a floppy and that did not
help. I can not get into safe mode to run a restore It just hangs, it hangs
whenever I boot windows xp. I have tried the recovery console and did a
fixmbr and a fixboot and that did not work. While in recovery console I type
listsvc and it looks like all services are disable. I tried enable but it
tells me that it is not working. I tried an install with the r option and
still can not get logged in.

How can I fix the registry. I can not afford to lose the work I have done
on web sites, because they constantly have to be updated and I do this with
what I have on my system before uploading. All my applications would be lost
as well and some I no longer has access to. Also my school work.

Please help. This is killing me for the week days I have tried
everything I know.
Dee

 

[Guest]

My registry got corrupted and I can not longer get into windows XP sp2.

I am running windows xp sp2 and windows 2003 on this system and have 4 other
partitions with plenty of other free disk space. I created another parition
and did a back up there.

I am a web developer and do most of my developing under windows xp as well
as school work. I do not want to lost all the sites I designed or schoosl
work.

I have copyied boot.ini, ntdlr and ntdetect.com to a floppy and that did not
help. I can not get into safe mode to run a restore It just hangs, it hangs
whenever I boot windows xp. I have tried the recovery console and did a
fixmbr and a fixboot and that did not work. While in recovery console I type
listsvc and it looks like all services are disable. I tried enable but it
tells me that it is not working. I tried an install with the r option and
still can not get logged in.

How can I fix the registry. I can not afford to lose the work I have done
on web sites, because they constantly have to be updated and I do this with
what I have on my system before uploading. All my applications would be lost
as well and some I no longer has access to. Also my school work.

Please help. This is killing me for the week days I have tried
everything I know.
Dee

Hi Dee,
I did read your Posts about this, first try to Rescue your Valuable Works by
Hooking the HDD for this Machine as a Slave to another Machine has an Up2date
Anti-Virus and the same Operating System or NT ( NTFS not FAT partition).
When the HDD drive detected Scan for Viruses and Malwares on your Slave HDD
and see what you will Find there.
When finished you can Copy your Data and work on a Removable Storage and
then Put back the troublesome HDD in its case and Bootup and start and see if
you will get an Error Message try write it down and send it here for us to
know or help us to help you.
If you can't start normally, try start up with the CD and select Setup when
on the Partition you will have the options to Install on the Exsiting Copy or
Repair the Copy, select *R* to repair and then reboot your machine and see if
you could login normally and system behave itself.
If all fail your only option is clean Install.
HTH.
Please let us know.
Good luck
nass

 

[Touch Base]

| My registry got corrupted and I can not longer get into windows XP sp2.
|
| I am running windows xp sp2 and windows 2003 on this system and have 4 other
| partitions with plenty of other free disk space. I created another parition
| and did a back up there.
|
<snip>

Do a repair install, DO NOT use the recovery console.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Read this section carefully: XP Repair install

and then make sure you read the section entitled: Warning! #1
before you begin the repair install.

(print it out for easy access as you do the steps)


This a butt saving site !!

 

[Alec S.]

My registry got corrupted and I can not longer get into windows XP sp2.

I am running windows xp sp2 and windows 2003 on this system and have 4 other
partitions with plenty of other free disk space. I created another parition
and did a back up there.

I am a web developer and do most of my developing under windows xp as well
as school work. I do not want to lost all the sites I designed or schoosl work.

I still don't see why you can't just boot into 2003, backup the web site folders, then reinstall XP.

 

[Guest]

Alex,

I do not want to lose data and/or program settings. I can not find a free
antivirus to run on Windows 2003. I have done a back up of the c: drivve to
another partition that I created. I guess I could upgrade the windows xp
partition to windows 2003 and I do not think that will cause me to no lose
the settings however I would then have two partitions running windows 2003
and my anitivirus does not work in windows 2003.

What would be your suggestion?

Thank you
Dee

 

[Alec S.]

What was the problem when you did a repair install? Did the install complete? Did it boot at all?

There's a special mode of repair install, different from the normal one. I'll see if I can find the page that describes it.

 

[Guest]

When I did the repair install, I pressed option 6 and put in a floppy for my
raid drive, then I went all the way to where it says repair an install. It
will then only show the c: drive, everything completes and it reboots and
acts like when you first installed windows xp and the music and all. Then it
just hangs again.

Dee

 

[Alec S.]

When I did the repair install, I pressed option 6 and put in a floppy for my
raid drive, then I went all the way to where it says repair an install. It
will then only show the c: drive, everything completes and it reboots and
acts like when you first installed windows xp and the music and all. Then it
just hangs again.

That's the normal repair install method. There's another way. I'll see if I can remember where I saw the page.

 

[Alec S.]

That's the normal repair install method. There's another way. I'll see if I can remember where I saw the page.

Well it took all day, but I finally found it; whew! Funny, I could have sworn it was an about.com site…


http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897

Give that a shot, it should hopefully fix your problem Dee.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Alec, trying it now will post back to this and let you know how it went.

Dee

 

[Guest]

After reading the documentation I realized that this is the kind of repair I
have done three times or more. It takes me to the screen where the music is
playing, then to register and then to networking options and then it hangs.

For tonight I have emailed Fred to see if he has any suggestions.

Dee

 

[Steve]

If a repair install didn't work the disk might be out of whack. Boot to the
recovery console and type this:

chkdsk /r

-n-

 

[Guest]

Steve,

I just tried your
chkdsk /r
and still can not get into the safemode or anything else for windows xp.

Any other suggestions would be helpful, I will continute to try what is
offered.

Dee

 

[Guest]

OK, can someone help me with this. I have been told that my windows xp sp2
is not repairable.

Here is what I have: Two hard drive that are installed raid:
C: windows xp sp2 - primary - system - 30 GB
J: windows 2003 Server Serivce pack 1 - primary - Boot - 30 GB
H: Recovery - Primary - to recorver windows xp - 40 GB
D: applications - logical - 50 GB
E: Web Site - logical - 50 GB
F: School - logical - 50 GB
G: PHP WebSites - logical - 50 GB

255.99 GB Free Space.

How do I make a slave from this, reinstall windows with the back up and fix
the registry?

Dee

 

[Alec S.]

OK, can someone help me with this. I have been told that my windows xp sp2 is not repairable.

Here is what I have: Two hard drive that are installed raid:
C: windows xp sp2 - primary - system - 30 GB
J: windows 2003 Server Serivce pack 1 - primary - Boot - 30 GB
H: Recovery - Primary - to recorver windows xp - 40 GB
D: applications - logical - 50 GB
E: Web Site - logical - 50 GB
F: School - logical - 50 GB
G: PHP WebSites - logical - 50 GB

255.99 GB Free Space.

How do I make a slave from this, reinstall windows with the back up and fix the registry?

There's obviously something really messed up with your copy of XP that it still cannot be repaired. What exactly happened? You
originally said that your registry was corrupted; how do you know that? You can't fix it if you don't know what's wrong with it.
What did you do, or what was the last thing that was going on right before the problem? Was it fine when you shut down, then never
came back up, or did you witness the problem (eg, see the crash, etc.)?

 

[Guest]

I had just downloaded IE 7. Since I do web sites for customers, I was going
one in active server pages with access, flash and css. I noticed my flash
was not working in IE, but was in Netscape. I kept downloading flash player,
but could not get it to work. I went to their forums and it was stated to
try flashfix which I downloaded from http://www.donglefree.com/toppage1.htm
and started running it. I noticed that Norton started acting up and
everything was flashing, no internet activity, or anything. So I did a hard
shut down with the shut down button.

I have never been able to get back into windows XP again.

If you read information from http://www.donglefree.com/toppage1.htm it tells
you it does something to your registry.

Dee

 

[Alec S.]

If you read information from http://www.donglefree.com/toppage1.htm it tells you it does something to your registry.

I just checked it and all it does is to grant all permissions to the entire registry and OS files/folders to the system and
administrator; it is not likely to be the cause.

I had just downloaded IE 7.

Did you install it? Did it suceed? Did you manage to use it at all?

Since I do web sites for customers, I was going
one in active server pages with access, flash and css. I noticed my flash
was not working in IE, but was in Netscape. I kept downloading flash player,
but could not get it to work. I went to their forums and it was stated to
try flashfix which I downloaded from http://www.donglefree.com/toppage1.htm
and started running it.

It might have been better to simply uninstall the existing FlashPlayer, reboot, then install from scratch.

I noticed that Norton started acting up

How so?

everything was flashing
???

no internet activity

At all? Not even in Netscape?

or anything. So I did a hard shut down with the shut down button.
I have never been able to get back into windows XP again.

The problem is most likely IE7 (it is after all, still just beta). It may have corrupted your Internet connection. There's some
fixes that can fix it depending what was corrupted, but you'd need to be able to boot to run them. It doesn't seem to be
overwritten with a repair install (Windows won't downgrade the files), so after you reinstalled, IE7 was still there. You can try
restoring the relevant files from CD but it's hard to know exactly which ones since IE is so integrated into Windows, and comes
spread out across so many files.

 

[Alec S.]

The problem is most likely IE7 (it is after all, still just beta).

Oh, and before anyone nags, I meant "it WAS after all, still just a beta" (at the time).

 

[Guest]

Since I can not get into my windows xp how do I uninstalled IE7? Did the
hard shut down cause the problem because I shut the system down with the
computer button? Should I just reinstall windows XP sp2? I do not have all
the applications I normally use for developing to do a reinstall of them, but
most are located on other partitions. Will I have access to my applications?
Will I have access to my other partitions since windows xp was the first
operating system I installed? Should I just make windows xp a windows 2003
server and have two versions of the server running. This is really impacting
me as I am getting more request for web sites. Re-installing apache, mysql,
java, php, perl, python, etc is not what I am wanting to do.

Dee

 

[Alec S.]

Since I can not get into my windows xp how do I uninstalled IE7? Did the
hard shut down cause the problem because I shut the system down with the
computer button?

No, what probably happened was that IE7 caused some kind of problem which did not manifest until you rebooted. That's because when
you installed, it could not replace it's files with the new versions because they were in use by the system, so you were still using
IE6. When you rebooted (any kind of reboot), it was able to replace them during the pre-startup phase of Windows. At that point,
IE7 was installed and when Windows tried to start, it failed.

Should I just reinstall windows XP sp2?

You mean from scratch right? You've already tried repair installs.

I do not have all
the applications I normally use for developing to do a reinstall of them, but
most are located on other partitions. Will I have access to my applications?

Yes, they will still be there, but they will not be "installed", so depending on the program, it may or may not run. Small programs
will often run anyway because all they need is the few files that make them up, and will recreate any missing registry entries. Big
programs like Office, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc. will not run because when installed, they dig their roots deep into the system. When
you install from scratch, none of those roots are there, so the program will at best run incorrectly, at worst crash the system.

Will I have access to my other partitions since windows xp was the first
operating system I installed?

Yes, the partitions are independent of the OS.

Should I just make windows xp a windows 2003
server and have two versions of the server running.

Assuming it will work (2003 does not come with IE7, so it may also refuse to overwrite those files with older versions), then you
could certainly do that as a temporary step.

This is really impacting
me as I am getting more request for web sites. Re-installing apache, mysql,
java, php, perl, python, etc is not what I am wanting to do.

It's not what anyone wants to do. At this point, if I were to reinstall from scratch, setup, configure, etc. everything, it would
probably take me over a week.



I'll look around to see if there's a way to force an overwrite of newer files (although the only time I've seen this option has been
while Windows was actually running.) Maybe (if you're lucky), there's a way to force overwriting newer files during setup as well.