Re: XP DOS regedit?

From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:47:58 -0500

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:22:48 -0700, "Paul Kennedy"
<BurlyCox@Gmail.com> wrote:

>I'd like to do somthing like what is described in this
>article:
>http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270_11-1032874-1.html
>except I've hit a wall, I'm running windows XP and the new
>regedit dosn't run in dos. I'm runnig NTFSDOS pro so NTFS
>isn't a problum. Does anyone know any tools (by microsoft
>or otherwise) that I can use from dos to get at the system
>hive?

The recommended way is to install a parallel copy of XP to another
partition, boot to the parallel copy, load the hive from the broken
copy to the parallel copy, repair it, and then boot to the original
copy of XP. Cumbersome, but it works. I know of no way to repair the
registry from DOS. It was difficult enough trying to do it in Win95
or 98, I can't even imagine attempting it with a NT class OS.

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