Re: Registry change - Now Win2k won't start

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 12/21/04

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    Restore the system hive from the recovery console using your backup. 

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"Peter Bradbury" wrote:
| Hello,
|
| In a fit of complete stupidity I made a change to regedit.exe. The change
| was that I relabelled my hard drive  in
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices (from \DosDevices\C: to
| \DosDevices\D:). After shutting down the computer I powered back up to 
find
| to my horror that after entering my username and password, nothing 
happens.
| My fear is that I have lost my hard drive! Does anyone know how I can fix
| this problem?
|
| Any help or suggestions would be appreciated,
| Thanks, Peter
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