Recovering from a Corrupted Registry That prevents Starting

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My friend is a "snowbird" who lives in Florida (in my
community) in the winter and Ohio in the Summer. They
left their Original CD with Windows Xp on it in Ohio and
they suffered the subject problem. I have read and
copied all the knowledge base articles which apply and
could repair the registry if I could get the Recovery
Module to function. Problem: When I load Windows
Startup from the 6 floppies I created from a Microsoft
download, and select "Recovery", the computer does
some "thinking" and returns with the original error msg.
I believe that it goes to a "lookup" file and wants to
compare the Serial number off the original CD. Since I
don't have it, I can't get the Recovery Module online. I
don't know why it needs the orginal CD to "repair a
problem". Can anyone provide a solution??????
 
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My friend is a "snowbird" who lives in Florida (in my
community) in the winter and Ohio in the Summer. They
left their Original CD with Windows Xp on it in Ohio and
they suffered the subject problem. I have read and
copied all the knowledge base articles which apply and
could repair the registry if I could get the Recovery
Module to function. Problem: When I load Windows
Startup from the 6 floppies I created from a Microsoft
download, and select "Recovery", the computer does
some "thinking" and returns with the original error msg.
I believe that it goes to a "lookup" file and wants to
compare the Serial number off the original CD. Since I
don't have it, I can't get the Recovery Module online. I
don't know why it needs the orginal CD to "repair a
problem". Can anyone provide a solution??????
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If you can access the below website, look there for a
possible solution to your problem:

Repair XP
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
 
As a last resort, take out his hard drive and hook it up in your computer
as slave. Next, when you can access his files
from Windows Explorer go to C:\Windows\System32\Config folder. Delete
system, sam, security, default and software
files. Not the .sav ones. Then go to C:\Windows\Repair Folder Copy the
five files you just deleted and paste them back
into the Config folder. That has worked for me.
 
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