Help with Bootdisk

[TechJansen]

Hi, I am looking for some help with making a bootdisk. My computer has some serious issues that I think are mostly registry related. I was looking to make a bootdisk that can fix and repair my registry from start-up. Any suggestions?

 

[schw32m]

Hi, I am looking for some help with making a bootdisk. My computer has some serious issues that I think are mostly registry related. I was looking to make a bootdisk that can fix and repair my registry from start-up. Any suggestions?

Go here if you have another OP system (vista etc) you should be able to find the article relating to your version.

 

[LA1]

if you know what part of the registry you need to edit, you can take your hard drive to another computer ( xp or better). connect the hard drive to the computer, then go to the hard drive and load the branches that you need into the registry editor in the current computer, do not forget to save them again once you are done.

I think the registry is in the folder \\windows\system32\config
there may not be anything there when windows is running, when you shut down windows there are some files w/o extensions system, software ...etc
these are the registry.
If your registry is that bad especially from a virus attack, it may be better to do a wipe and reload

you can always do a parralel install, installing xp to another folder.

 

[TechJansen]

Go here if you have another OP system (vista etc) you should be able to find the article relating to your version.

Great, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you

 

[TechJansen]

if you know what part of the registry you need to edit, you can take your hard drive to another computer ( xp or better). connect the hard drive to the computer, then go to the hard drive and load the branches that you need into the registry editor in the current computer, do not forget to save them again once you are done.

I think the registry is in the folder \\windows\system32\config
there may not be anything there when windows is running, when you shut down windows there are some files w/o extensions system, software ...etc
these are the registry.
If your registry is that bad especially from a virus attack, it may be better to do a wipe and reload

you can always do a parralel install, installing xp to another folder.

Thanks for the reply. I think that the registry errors are severe and most definitely from a virus. I was hoping to restore the registry enough to get my important files off of the hard drive and then wipe the whole thing clean afterwards.