Recovery console not working

[cmcardle75]

Is there an alternative to recovery console? It crashes actually inside
recovery console with "REGISTRY_ERROR" before you get a chance to fix
it. When attempting to boot normally, the System registry is declared
corrupt. Last Known Good doesn't work, or any other options.

To complicate matters further, it is a SATA drive off a VIA RAID
controller using NTFS, so a windows 98 boot disk isn't much use.

Christian.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is there an alternative to recovery console? It crashes actually inside
recovery console with "REGISTRY_ERROR" before you get a chance to fix
it. When attempting to boot normally, the System registry is declared
corrupt. Last Known Good doesn't work, or any other options.

To complicate matters further, it is a SATA drive off a VIA RAID
controller using NTFS, so a windows 98 boot disk isn't much use.

Christian.

In this case I would boot the machine with a Bart PE boot
CD (www.bootdisk.com). To make one you need this:
- A CD burner
- A WinXP Professional CD (but no licence number!)
- About three hours of your time

I would then rename these files:
- system to system.bad
- system.alt to system

 

[cmcardle75]

Thanks. I'll get myself one of those bootdisks some time. In the end, I
took it in to work and plugged it into a SATA capable machine there and
fiddled the files. Unfortunately, the computer seems to have much worse
problems than just the XP installation. Looks like a new motherboard
and processor...

Christian.