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I've used the search feaure and read topics similar to mine, so sorry for covering ground already well-tread.
I'd consider myself a beginner at winXP, and the registry in particular. Occaisionally I've looked in and deleted keys remaining from old installs, always careful to backup my registry and create a restore point beforehand. I've never had a problem doing this, and am slowly learning my way around. (or so i thought..
Recently I found a program on a magazine disc that offered to find and remove "broken" registry keys that no longer point to anything valid. with the occaisional mad dabbling i do in the registry, i thought this a good idea, sort of a "safer" alternative to looking myself and potentially damaging/missing something.
ok, ramble over.
I backed up the registry, set a restore point, ran the program, it removed (with a confirmation... so its still my mistake)
something it shouldnt have. now, for the first time, I'm trying to recover my registry. My PC wont boot in anything but last known good, and when it does the startup-login is horrendously slow. when i try a system restore, i'm informed that nothing has changed since the restore point (pre-changes) however, the load times tend to indicate that thats not the case
When i try to restore the registry, i cannot, as windows is currently using some of the keys.
a disc-boot repair as outlined in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q307545 opens a whole series of other problems, as i run on a raid-0 sata setup, not recognised by the default drivers on xp pro sp1 CD. (yes, i could dig out the drivers and use F6 to load them at repair bootup... is this my only option?) i have a restore point, AND a full backup of the registry available, once i can figure out how to get either to load for me.
The situation is not critical, as im currently running XP ok, but theres obviously problems somewhere, as indicated by load times, and the necessity of running last-good config.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
-Cholera.
I'd consider myself a beginner at winXP, and the registry in particular. Occaisionally I've looked in and deleted keys remaining from old installs, always careful to backup my registry and create a restore point beforehand. I've never had a problem doing this, and am slowly learning my way around. (or so i thought..
Recently I found a program on a magazine disc that offered to find and remove "broken" registry keys that no longer point to anything valid. with the occaisional mad dabbling i do in the registry, i thought this a good idea, sort of a "safer" alternative to looking myself and potentially damaging/missing something.
ok, ramble over.
I backed up the registry, set a restore point, ran the program, it removed (with a confirmation... so its still my mistake)
something it shouldnt have. now, for the first time, I'm trying to recover my registry. My PC wont boot in anything but last known good, and when it does the startup-login is horrendously slow. when i try a system restore, i'm informed that nothing has changed since the restore point (pre-changes) however, the load times tend to indicate that thats not the case
When i try to restore the registry, i cannot, as windows is currently using some of the keys.
a disc-boot repair as outlined in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q307545 opens a whole series of other problems, as i run on a raid-0 sata setup, not recognised by the default drivers on xp pro sp1 CD. (yes, i could dig out the drivers and use F6 to load them at repair bootup... is this my only option?) i have a restore point, AND a full backup of the registry available, once i can figure out how to get either to load for me.
The situation is not critical, as im currently running XP ok, but theres obviously problems somewhere, as indicated by load times, and the necessity of running last-good config.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
-Cholera.