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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Rescue Disc => Topic started by: beerslayer on September 21, 2003, 08:43:54 PM
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Hi,
I happened to start reading about your BART CD product, and while I can't foresee the need for it in my case, one part of it caught my attention: the Registry Editor.
Here's my problem: I have a triple-boot PC (fortunately, not my primary machine), which used to be able to boot Windows 98 from the C: drive and Windows 2000 from the D: drive (and Linux from the third partition, but that's not relevant). Recently, while working under 2000, I attempted to update the video driver, and something went badly wrong. 2000 no longer boots - even in Safe Mode, I get the dreaded BSOD during startup. 98 still boots fine (as does Linux).
I have a feeling I know what's wrong in the 2000 registry (disabled standard VGA adapter). But I cannot find any way to get into the 2000 registry - 2000's "recovery console" is virtually worthless, and 98's regedit won't touch 2000's registry. Nor will any third-party registry editors I've tried so far (RegHance, Registrar Lite).
My questions are:
1) Would your registry editor provide me a way to get into 2000's registry on my system from 98, without having to reinstall 2000? I have a lot of stuff installed under 2000 that I don't really want to lose the registry settings for...
2) If so, is there any way I can buy, beg, borrow, or steal a copy of this registry editor? Needless to say, I cannot afford US$300 for the CD... and I'd never use most of what's on it anyway.
3) Have you folks considered selling the registry editor separately? I could probably afford $10-20 for it, if I had a reasonable expectation that it would work in my circumstances...
Thanks in advance,
-- Jeff
-- aka The Beerslayer
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Hm, aren´t you able to start Win200 in safe mode?
If you can´t, you can try regdatXP (http://people.freenet.de/h.ulbrich/). It is shareware, i do not know what the sareware allows and what it doesn´t.
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The BART CD regedit can't be used for your purpose as it only runs under Win2K/XP (the BART CD itself woukd work just fine, though).
However, why don't you take the registry files to another WinNT/2K/XP machine, and load/edit the hives from there? This should work without any problems...
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The BART CD regedit can't be used for your purpose as it only runs under Win2K/XP (the BART CD itself woukd work just fine, though).
I have another Win2K machine that I could make a bootable CD on; however, the CD drive on the semi-dead machine doesn't recognize all bootable CDs - it won't boot from the Win2K installation CD itself, for instance.
However, why don't you take the registry files to another WinNT/2K/XP machine, and load/edit the hives from there? This should work without any problems...
Because I didn't think of it, that's why! :-\
Actually, it sounds like a good idea, but I've never tried this before. I'm not sure which files constitute the common (HKLM portion?) registry... I know of USER.DAT, but I also seem to remember a SYSTEM.DAT under earlier Windows versions, which I cannot find anywhere. There should be a common registry file that is used with all users, but I do not know what it's called under Win2K, nor where to find it.
However, my original question still stands: have you considered making a stand-alone version of your registry editor that would work for someone in my situation? ;D
-- Jeff
-- aka The Beerslayer