Re: boot can't see that there is a registry there

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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:03:49 -0500

"John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
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> Well, I guess I wasn't clear enough in an earlier post when I said
> "...if this doesn't work you are facing a reinstall of some sort." I
> should have worded that differently, I apologize, I should have said:
> "...this might require a reinstall if things go wrong."
>
> Do you have an Emergency Repair Disk?
> To use emergency repair on a system that will not start
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/help/default.asp?url=/windows2000/en/advanced/help/recovery_erd.htm
>
> What is exact error message that you get? Post it here.

Well things look catastrophic but I dont think they are all that disastrous
in reality: THere is simply (if that if the word) something preventing my
computer from seeing the registry on boot. I have followed the Microsoft
instructions on how to change a registry and it was something in that
procedure whcih caused this problem. After I had executed the commands the
system stopped being able to see its system file. Either system file. No
amount of changing it or trying alternatives (such a 'last knows working
configurtation' which I presume what system.alt is) would help. although I
havent got an emergency repair disc, wouldnt it be easier to try to identify
what is wrong with the system which is preventing it from seeing the
registty?

(I can in fact put a working drive in the Toshiba and create another vanilla
installation if necessary and then create an emergency repair disc if
necessary IF that procedure is open to me with this lousy recovery dsic
which they gave me? I seem to remember when I tried it that during the
create process they ask you for your windows 2000 install disc and I dont
have one so I couldnt create it last time I tried but I could try again to
confirm that this was the problem with this procedure: I might be
remembering the wrong procedure?)
>
> What are the specs on the machine and about how much free space do you
> have on the hard drive?
The Toshiba sis a 650 MHz 256 Meg Pwntium 111 and space on the hard drive IS
a bit of a problem: I only have about 115 meg of space on a HDD of 12 gig.
I can easily free up some of the space by deleting that 58 megabyte file
which I now discover ISNT a backup of the registry which I cant see how I
could need if the problem is simply one of the boot proccess not seeing the
registry.

What is that XP disc that you have? Did you
> install it and activate it elsewhere? Yes, it is a spare XP Pro install
disc which I had used and activated on another computer.

Hardware and space permitting you
> can use it to salvage your files. What is the file system on the
> machine FAT32 or NTFS? Do you have access to a REAL Windows 2000
> install disc?

No
 That would be the best way out of this quagmire that I
> and Roxio led you into. If the drive is FAT32, Windows 98 (or even DOS)
> can be used to salvage your files. If your files are small DOS and an
> NTFS DOS reader can be used to salvage them. The drive is slavable to
> another W2K or XP machine but you will need an adaptor cable.
That isnt a real problem as I have a desktop machine which I can put this
notebook drive into to salvage the fiels but I am hoping that I can get this
computer to see its registry somehow as the move process would be
exceptionally laborious, what as I use Microsoft Outlook for all my PIM and
mail: It has a few disastrous faults: Firstly it makes .pst files which are
between 300 Mgagabytes and 500 megabytes in sixe which include all data ever
created by outlook and all email and all data you could in thoery put in
such PIM. Secondly it doesn't crete .iaf files any more so with a dozen
mailboxes, you have to keep careful track of user IDs and passwords now,
which is a bit difficult without access to the Outlook because what you are
doing is to move files on another computer

What is the model number of the laptop,
> perhaps Toshiba can still be of help. I am at the moment in New York and
Toshiba have discontinued all their american support: When you call them
they try to demoralise you into going away: First they try to get all your
personal information out of you v e r y s l o lw l y indeed, repeating every
thing a few times even slower. Then an Indian voce pretends to listen very
carefully to the problem witout taking any of it in. He then (after trying
to wriggle our of helping if you have bought your Toshiba computer with a
global warranty anywhere out of the US, pretends that he is "going to
double check that" and then after an interval of a timed 35 seconds tries to
get you to format your hard drive and use the recovery disc without
bothering to check if you even have a bcakup: Toshiba appparently takes
great joy in THEN finding out that their users have destroyed al their data
and configurations AFTER they have destroyed everything.

I was sorta hoping I could avoid that curious ritual which seems to
consituute TOshiba AMerica's exit from the consumer computer makret by
identifying what is preventing my computer from seeing its registry which is
there and in proper form and (except for the Roxio and SCSI bit) working.

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