Trying to fix registry as slave drive

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My computers hard drive decided to not boot up anymore for
some odd reason. Started a few months back, would randomly
turn off and then have problems starting back up, finally
got into settings and set CMOS and BIOS back to last known
good config. Everything was working fine, till recently
where now its shot again. Can't even get the computer to
start the load of Windows, on power up the cd drive light
just blinks, almost like it is a loop of the start up. Even
with disconnecting the drive from power and ribbon cord,
still no success. So I took an old working computer and
made this my hard drive a slave and I can access the slave
drive as the D drive and all info on there by exploring
from start menu. Now my question is, is there anyway I can
access the registry with either XP recovery disc or some
registry fixer to get the registry and anything else that
may be shot, back to normal so I can transfer my hard drive
back into my computer so it will start up and run fine
again? If there is, please let me know what to do and what
program to do it with. Thanks.
 
Basically you are about to realize the truth of all those
who have tried to tell you to maintain a good backup.
Unless you are extremely lucky or willing to spend several
hundred dollars on data recovery experts, you've had it.
sorry - sam --------------------------------------------
 
Your post is very confusing. It sounds like a hardware problem in the first
computer, but maybe not since you say you were able to resolve it by last
good config before. (That has nothing to do with CMOS or BIOS, it's an
Windows function.) Where does it hang up - boot screens, starting windows
screen?

If it is a Windows issue, perhaps http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304449
will be of some interest. A repair install would be the next option.
 
mike said:
My computers hard drive decided to not boot up anymore for
some odd reason. Started a few months back, would randomly
turn off and then have problems starting back up, finally
got into settings and set CMOS and BIOS back to last known
good config. Everything was working fine, till recently
where now its shot again. Can't even get the computer to
start the load of Windows, on power up the cd drive light
just blinks, almost like it is a loop of the start up. Even
with disconnecting the drive from power and ribbon cord,
still no success. So I took an old working computer and
made this my hard drive a slave and I can access the slave
drive as the D drive and all info on there by exploring
from start menu. Now my question is, is there anyway I can
access the registry with either XP recovery disc or some
registry fixer to get the registry and anything else that
may be shot, back to normal so I can transfer my hard drive
back into my computer so it will start up and run fine
again? If there is, please let me know what to do and what
program to do it with. Thanks.
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No. Besides, from your description of the problem behavior, it sounds as
though your hard drive is dying. This would be a hardware problem and
no amount of software tinkering will solve the issue. Copy off your
data onto the working Windows hard drive. Then test the problematic
hard drive with a diagnostic utility downloaded from the drive mftr.'s
website. If there are any errors, replace the drive.

Malke
 
mike said:
So I took an old working computer and
made this my hard drive a slave and I can access the slave
drive as the D drive and all info on there by exploring
from start menu. Now my question is, is there anyway I can
access the registry with either XP recovery disc or some
registry fixer to get the registry and anything else that
may be shot, back to normal so I can transfer my hard drive
back into my computer so it will start up and run fine
again?
Click to expand...

I very much doubt if it will be any help, but *IF* and only if that
other machine also runs XP, then you should be able to use its regedit
to load a 'Hive' of the other disk' registry from that disk's
\windows\system32\config folder. To do this, quoting from regedit's
Help:

"Open Registry Editor.
In the registry tree (on the left), click either the HKEY_USERS or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys.
On the File menu, click Load Hive.
In Look in, click the drive, folder, or network computer and folder that
contains the hive you want to load.
Click Open.
In Key Name, type the name that you want to assign to the hive, and then
click OK. "

Make sure you do not let it conflict with any name of the machine's own
registry. Eg if you load SOFTWARE call it OTHERSOFT

You would then Unload Hive at the end of any editing. And have a
restore point available on this second machine you could revert to if
you drop something
 
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