This is a last ditch effort to get around having to reinstall W2k. Does anyone know of a third party software that can access NTFS via FAT32? I have exhausted every means to restoring a saved copy of my W2k registry onto my main system with no success.
I have done everything I know to do just to simply get into %systemroot%\System32\Config to restore a good copy of my backed up registry hive that I have copied out of Repair\Regback to another drive location.
When I trying booting into W2k the missing/corrupt hive being reported is: D:\Systemroot\System32\Config\Software. I will try and restore all hive if I can to avoid making matters worst. Not even my ERD was able to repair the error. Partition Magic checks the NTFS partition, only to report "No Errors". In Recovery Console not even Chkdsk could repair the error. All I need to do is restore a corrupt hive with a known good beackup.
So, this is what I have done via Recovery Console:
cd repair\regback
copy <i><b>file_name</i></b> D:\systemroot\system32\config
where <i><b>file_name</i></b> is the 5 registry hives I want to restore:
<b>Default
SAM
Security
Software
System</b>
NTFS said: "<b>Access Denied</b>"
So, I copied the 5 registry hive files to another drive on my system, and reattempted the procedure to copy/restore the registry in the %systemroot% directory, but keep getting the same message "Access Denied". **sigh** Something tells me that as an Administrator I should at least be able to defeat this security.
Someone told me the W2k is looking for the default Administrator and password and not a member of the admin group. Well, good ole wise me, changed the name of the default Administrator to something other that "Administrator". I guess this is why even though I can gain access to the partition, but get the access denied message because I am no longer the default Administrator. (I don't know what to think about that...sounds bogus to me) However, nevertheless I can't even copy my good registry back into the %systemroot% directory. *sigh*!! *sigh*!!
Everyone that I have talked to says the I'll have to reinstall W2k. Another thing that people are saying is that when I reinstall W2k it will not recognize any program that are installed. So, basically I'll be starting over from scratch.
Another thing I did was setup a NFFS/FAT32 dual boot on one of my other PC on my network in order to back door my main system to restore it's registry. This failed, because I had disabled file sharing on my main system before the crash. As you see, I have exhausted every means to restore without reinstalling.
Has anyone had to reinstall W2k on top of a botch registry and survived? Looking for some success stories now/second chance options. Any help most gladly appreciated.
<font color=purple><b>Listen twice as much as you Speak. Better yet, Think twice.
</font color=purple></b>
I have done everything I know to do just to simply get into %systemroot%\System32\Config to restore a good copy of my backed up registry hive that I have copied out of Repair\Regback to another drive location.
When I trying booting into W2k the missing/corrupt hive being reported is: D:\Systemroot\System32\Config\Software. I will try and restore all hive if I can to avoid making matters worst. Not even my ERD was able to repair the error. Partition Magic checks the NTFS partition, only to report "No Errors". In Recovery Console not even Chkdsk could repair the error. All I need to do is restore a corrupt hive with a known good beackup.
So, this is what I have done via Recovery Console:
cd repair\regback
copy <i><b>file_name</i></b> D:\systemroot\system32\config
where <i><b>file_name</i></b> is the 5 registry hives I want to restore:
<b>Default
SAM
Security
Software
System</b>
NTFS said: "<b>Access Denied</b>"
So, I copied the 5 registry hive files to another drive on my system, and reattempted the procedure to copy/restore the registry in the %systemroot% directory, but keep getting the same message "Access Denied". **sigh** Something tells me that as an Administrator I should at least be able to defeat this security.
Someone told me the W2k is looking for the default Administrator and password and not a member of the admin group. Well, good ole wise me, changed the name of the default Administrator to something other that "Administrator". I guess this is why even though I can gain access to the partition, but get the access denied message because I am no longer the default Administrator. (I don't know what to think about that...sounds bogus to me) However, nevertheless I can't even copy my good registry back into the %systemroot% directory. *sigh*!! *sigh*!!
Everyone that I have talked to says the I'll have to reinstall W2k. Another thing that people are saying is that when I reinstall W2k it will not recognize any program that are installed. So, basically I'll be starting over from scratch.
Another thing I did was setup a NFFS/FAT32 dual boot on one of my other PC on my network in order to back door my main system to restore it's registry. This failed, because I had disabled file sharing on my main system before the crash. As you see, I have exhausted every means to restore without reinstalling.
Has anyone had to reinstall W2k on top of a botch registry and survived? Looking for some success stories now/second chance options. Any help most gladly appreciated.
<font color=purple><b>Listen twice as much as you Speak. Better yet, Think twice.
</font color=purple></b>
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