I'll try to make this as brief and informative as possible.
My laptop (XP Pro OS) flashed a blue screen last week, crashed, and kept giving me BSOD message "0x00000024" when I tried to reboot. When I booted the system with my ERD 2005 disc, the OS wasn't found and the file system on the drive was "Raw". Crap.
I googled the BSOD error and saw that many users were able to fix the drive using the Recovery Console. I don't have XP Pro installation discs, but I DO have the operating system discs for my XP Media Center desktop. I was able to run the Recovery Console using the XP Media Center disc, run chkdsk /r, and the drive errors were fixed. Yay!
err, not so fast my friend. Turns out that since the system disc I used was for my XP Media Center pc and not the XP Pro laptop, the registry files aren't the same. Now I am stuck with a different BSOD (c00002 - can't locate SOFTWARE registry hive).
I don't have any restore points, so that option is out.
However, I DO have the backup registry files created by Spybot. Is there any way to restore the registry from the backup registry files created by Spybot?
If not, I also have access to another XP Pro machine that is nearly identical to my crashed laptop. Can I restore or repair the registry on the crashed drive using the registry from the working XP Pro machine?
Thanks in advance for any help.
My laptop (XP Pro OS) flashed a blue screen last week, crashed, and kept giving me BSOD message "0x00000024" when I tried to reboot. When I booted the system with my ERD 2005 disc, the OS wasn't found and the file system on the drive was "Raw". Crap.
I googled the BSOD error and saw that many users were able to fix the drive using the Recovery Console. I don't have XP Pro installation discs, but I DO have the operating system discs for my XP Media Center desktop. I was able to run the Recovery Console using the XP Media Center disc, run chkdsk /r, and the drive errors were fixed. Yay!
err, not so fast my friend. Turns out that since the system disc I used was for my XP Media Center pc and not the XP Pro laptop, the registry files aren't the same. Now I am stuck with a different BSOD (c00002 - can't locate SOFTWARE registry hive).
I don't have any restore points, so that option is out.
However, I DO have the backup registry files created by Spybot. Is there any way to restore the registry from the backup registry files created by Spybot?
If not, I also have access to another XP Pro machine that is nearly identical to my crashed laptop. Can I restore or repair the registry on the crashed drive using the registry from the working XP Pro machine?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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