To do this, follow these steps. These steps may require downtime for the computer. After you complete step 2, you may not see any change in behavior. To prevent the corruption, try to close all running processes before you shut down the computer. You may be able to narrow the scope to a single process that is involved.
Even if you determine the process, you may be unable to prevent a component from being unloaded before the registry hive is written to. However, if you make sure that you stop the process before shut down, you may be able to prevent registry hive corruption. After you complete step 3, if you do not see any change in behavior, compare the registry hives.
Capture a non-corrupted registry hive and a corrupted registry hive and then compare the two by using comparison tools such as Windiff. Determine which registry hive section is growing. If it seems that the problem in the registry hive is growing too large, you may be able to determine which section is growing and to trace this back to a process that is writing to the hive. If so and you feel comfortable or know someone who can pull out the hard drive from the computer and connect it to another computer.
You can do this by I. Hard drive enclose kit. Once the hard drive is connected you can go into My Computer and copy all of the files to another hard drive. Was this reply helpful?
Yes No. Thread starter allanc Start date May 25, Reaction score Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I made a full image backup of the computer before I started to work on the computer.
A client brings in her computer saying that she "can't get any programs to run, the computer seems to be OK in safe mode but that mode is too limited". She also says that a neighbour tried to fix her computer of course but was unsuccessful. I booted into Windows and verified that the start button would display the programs but nothing would start including the Control Panel. I tried a Windows 7 repair and restoring back to last good configuration.
Neither seemed to improve the situation. Next, I restored to one of the previous restore points. This seemed to work in that programs would run but 2 Windows Updates were stuck in that they would fail to install over and over again. So, I hide them for the time being and now that problem is resolved. Historically before the client brought the computer in , I can see many errors in the Windows System Log where the computer was not shutdown properly e.
That brings me to where I am now with this computer. Some data might have been lost". I am getting the error above every time either Safe Mode or Regular that I power-up the computer. The only way to 'fix' this problem is by booting into Safe Mode with Networking go to step 'a' above.
I have searched for resolutions without success. All assistance is greatly appreciated. AlexT New Member. Reaction score 0. AlexT said:. Click to expand This means that if these steps are followed on an OEM machine, then it may not be possible to log back into the recovery console to restore the original registry hives. First, a backup of all current registry files is made so that they could be restored if anything goes wrong. Restoring registry hives from a repair folder.
Right after the boot process is completed successfully, it is possible to either backup all user data and reinstall Windows from scratch, or follow the procedure described in the Windows KB corrupted registry article to manually restore the system registry to a more newer version that was backed up by System Restore.
Read more at Windows Recovery Disks. The NeoSmart Support Forums , member-to-member technical support and troubleshooting. Get a discounted price on replacement setup and installation discs: Windows XP. Applicable Systems This Windows-related knowledgebase article applies to the following operating systems:.
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