Re: hive corrupted...

Hi Patrick,

Thanks. I'd really appreciate it if you could mail me instructions on
how to do the hard drive back up you have mentioned above.

I also sometimes get a message like

"PBR for descriptor 2 loading...done

A disk read error occured
Press alt+ctrl+del..."

Dell diag shows that hard drive can be accessed but some parts/blocks
are corrupted (cannot be read from). Does this suggest anything to
you?

Thanks,

Arvind


Patrick Keenan wrote:
"Arvind" <arvind.phd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1163184257.377146.41620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have a dell 600m laptop with XP home. It is not booting.
Re-installing the OS is my last option since I have some important data
in it.

I have tried several of the tricks online, but none of them work
because the entire c:\windows
directory is not seen. Tricks include using recovery console and
replacing the 4 hives with the ones in repair directory (not working
because c:\windows is not seen on startup of recovery console, only c:
is seen). Also, commands like cd windows, md tmp etc. do not work. I
get the message "access denied".


Does any of u know a place in Dallas where they will diagonize laptop
issue related things at a reasonable price? If any of u is an expert
on such things, please let me know if you have any ideas on how to fix
this.

Thanks,

Arvind

Sounds like it may be more than the hive that is corrupted, but you may have
simply set a policy that limits the scope of the Recovery Console.

You might consider removing the drive and attaching it to another system via
a USB-hard disk connector, and getting your important data *off* it before
proceeding.

If you're having other problems with the drive, consider replacing it with a
new drive, doing a clean install, and then copying your data back over from
the old drive.

HTH
-pk

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