Re: Can you edit the registry from Recovery Console

From: BookerW (BookerW_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:01:04 -0800

Specifically, the mesage about the volume being dirty is as follows:
NTFS-fs error (device hda2): load system_files(): Volume is Dirty. Mounting
Read-only. Run chkdsk and mount in Windows.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "BookerW" <BookerW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:73E2D7EE-AF2A-4186-865E-022E52B2F478@microsoft.com...
> > I need to edit a registry key, but I am unable to boot into safe mode or
> get
> > into Windows. Is there a way to get into the registry from the recovery
> > console?
> >
> > Help
>
> You can do it if you boot with this disk:
>
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
>
>
>

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