Re: How can I fix the hive?

Hi,

Checkdisk will not correct the registry hives. As you've disable the thing that could've saved you, there's really only one other thing you can try, and that would the the Last Known Good Configuration from the boot menu.

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"Darkwing" <respj4pc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9d92bd4a-085a-44c5-b2e6-f50b3a10f473@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the suggestion, but I turned off System Restore a long time
ago, which means that all of my System Restore points are gone.

Right now, Chkdsk is at 82% in stage 4, and it doesn't seem to have
discovered any new problems. I wish I knew whether or not this Chkdsk
is doing anything beneficial.

On Aug 8, 6:17 pm, "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Boot to the system repair menu with your Vista DVD and do a System Restore
to a time before this incident.

"Darkwing" <respj4pc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:4410a512-db91-4b18-93af-e17710a4f07f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


> Long story short, I loaded hive via regedit, and move some files from
> my desktop to the public folder while in there. Now I can no longer
> boot into windows, the computer simply restarts, and I do know that
> the volume is now corrupt. In retrospect, I realize that messing
> around in hive caused this, and I'm kicking myself for it.

> Now all I can do is try to correct this. I am currently running
> Chkdsk.The only problem it found so far was 4 unindexed files, which
> it has now processed. It is now at stage 4 (verifying file data) at
> 81%.

> Do you think chkdsk will fix the problem? And if it doesn't, is there
> a way I can fix this? All I really want is to be able to access my
> created files.

.

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