Re: Deleting 'invalid' font registry keys has messed up fonts

PS. The .reg file here may also fix the fonts.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919752/en-us

John

John John wrote:

In most cases to install or repair install Windows 2000 properly on SATA drives you have to press F6 very early on during the setup routine, you will see a prompt at the bottom of the screen telling you to "Press F6 to install Mass Storage Drivers...", you only have a short bit of time to press the key, if you miss the prompt you have to reboot and restart the setup program. You MUST supply the SATA drivers on a floppy diskette, the setup program will not accept them on any other media source. The setup program will almost always favour and see active partitions on IDE drives as C instead of the ones on the SATA drives. I always recommend that users disconnect or disable the IDE drive in the BIOS while they install Windows on SATA drive, the IDE drive can be introduced after Windows is installed. If you disconnect the IDE drive and try the above you may still be able to salvage the installation...

I think that now, after this episode with "Registry Cleaners" or "Registry Fixers", you will understand why almost no one with experience recommends their use. The potential destruction caused by these things is simply not worth the non existent benefit that they claim to provide. Many users have been left with perfectly good Windows installations completely destroyed after using some of these worthless products.

John

Usmanatron wrote:

Hi John John,

Unfortunately, I cannot reinstall the font(s) in question, since they already still exist. The registry keys are the pieces that are messed up.

I tried to do an in place repair, however, in one word, it went 'disasterously'.
It seems the problem is because I have a SATA drive and an IDE drive. My Windows installation was on my SATA drive and marked C:, however setup detected my IDE drive as C:, instead of my SATA drive.

Now, the Win2K drive thinks it is D:\, while all of the programs are looking for C:\... so now everythings broke.

Just to add insult to injury, I cannot even see if the fonts have been repaired, since all of the programs which were suffering from the problem all don't work.

I know you can change the drive letter of your system disk using some funny method, but to be honest I think it would be better to start again on a clean slate.

I've decided Im going to format the whole thing and start again. Thankfully, windows still boots, so I can move everything else I would like to keep onto my 'work' drive painlessly. I've got half term holidays for a week, so that should be plenty of time to get it back to its former self.

I appreciate the help John John. Its a shame it didn't go to plan :)

Regards

Usman

"John John" wrote:


Have you tried reinstalling all the fonts? That failing:

How to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292175

John





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