Re: Laptop won't boot in safe mode


"John Jordan" <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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bornfree wrote:
Laptop won't boot in safe mode... what should I do? (Short of
reinstalling Windows XP)
It can boot with BartPE.. but I don't know what to do with it after
that point.

That depends entirely on what "won't boot" means.

If it's an unmountable boot volume BSOD, just run chkdsk from BartPE.
Otherwise you'll probably need to kill services.


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John Jordan

A great little programme called registry restore, it is present on mini-pe
boot cd, very simlar to bartpe, i presume it is on there as well, it
automates the manual replacement of the registry, the equivalent of running
scanreg /restore on a win98 machine.

To do it manualy boot with the bartpe cd, open explorer, go to
c:\windows\system32\config create a new folder and dump the sam security
software default and system files into the new folder.

Navigate to the system volume information folder on C: find the latest rp
folder, go to snapshot and copy over:

_REGISTRY_USER_.DEFAULT
_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SECURITY
_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SYSTEM
_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM

to the c:\windows\system32\config folder, paste and rename the files
Rename _REGISTRY_USER_.DEFAULT to DEFAULT
Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SECURITY to SECURITY
Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE to SOFTWARE
Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SYSTEM to SYSTEM
Rename _REGISTRY_MACHINE_SAM to SAM

that has a pretty good chance of getting windows up and running for you....

Gaz



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