Comments on: Recovering from Windows registry hive corruption, the clever way.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:44:12 +0000

wow, that’s awesome. Thanks.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:35:04 +0000

I made a tool to automate restoring an old registry snapshots to replace a corrupted registry hive. It saves you the time of typing all the commands or dragging and dropping. It can be run from a windowsPE Disk or if you slave the offline drive to another computer. Please let me know if you find any bugs I have tested on a few computers with no issues.
http://whatsmypass.com/files/HiveRestoreXP.zip
It’s free free free

By: Ronnie Calugar

Ronnie Calugar — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:02:44 +0000

Absolutely terrific. You have saved me many hours of frustration and reloading all for the cost of a usb / hard drive adapter at Comp USA — I can’t say thank you enough!!

By: MARC ANDRE

MARC ANDRE — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:04:22 +0000

that was really great. I love people who work and think like you did.that was really great.great tech you should be. from Cameroon.

By: pablo rodriguez

pablo rodriguez — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:41:44 +0000

I have this same problem on an older model toshiba satellite laptop. it wont boot from cd and changing the boot order does not help. should i put a pin in my hard drive to make it a slave? the only thing i can do is hold down the escape key until says “check system ” and hit F1 which sends me to the system start up and that is where i try to change the boot order but no luck ,it changes but goes back to same message. if i hold down F8 i get another menu but all of the options dead end in the same result pleeeesae help me

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:41:27 +0000

Can this be done if the bad hard drive is using XP, and my laptop is using Vista?

By: Paola

Paola — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:09:42 +0000

Thanks for your instructions, but they haven’t worked for us. Maybe the file system is truly screwed, as you mention at the beginning of the article. We used the McAffee clean-up before the netbook started showing us that error; could we have deleted the wrong files?

It would be great if you could show us some pictures of how to do this as many of us are unsure of what some things you mention actually are. For example, we used a USB to USB cable to try to fix this problem. Is that not good enough?

By: Vishal

Vishal — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:46:30 +0000

Thank you so much. This solved my problem in a few minutes (after having wasted my time for hours with the windows recovery console).

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!

By: Carol B

Carol B — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:36:04 +0000

Thanks SO much…..you saved me lots of time and aggravation! I stumbled on this by accident……..thanks so much for your generosity in posting!!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:03:17 +0000

Whenever I try to import the system file the machine reboots and says it’s recovered from a serious error.