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Much better than saving all data first and then formatting and reinstalling Windows.
Free at last, free at last - and THANK YOU! :-)
There's a REASON only Windows uses a binary database for system configuration, it's because EVERYONE ELSE has better ideas on how to design an operating system than Microsoft. It;s because EVERYONE ELSE knows what a horrible idea it is to actually use a database for storing any configuration whatsoever, especially one as inaccessible as the registry.
The registry pretty much guarantees that NO rescue disk whatsoever will succeed at fixing Windows if the problem lies within its stores. Compound this problem with the fact that the registry has a horribly low tolerance for invalid data stored inside it, no matter how innocuous. Thus, if the registry breaks, the ONLY system that can fix it is the system you can't boot, since the registry is COMPLETELY closed to outside systems. No boot disk can access it, not even Microsoft'd own crippled recovery console can do anything about it.
This, along with things like drive letter access, the fact that its still really a single-user system, and the fact that Microsoft can't secure it properly largely BECAUSE it's a single user system, are all reasons why Windows is a horribly inferior operating system. Poorly designed. VERY poorly designed. To the point you only get a handful of options for even fixing it if it breaks before you have to reinstall it. Which is horrible because the drive letter system makes reinstalling it a real hassle, as not only do you have to reinstall your software, but backup and reinstall ALL your data.
This is why Linux and OS X are starting to kill Windows on the desktop, because both of them more or less do it CORRECTLY. You can fix both with even basic text editors from boot disks, no matter what the configuration is that's broken. I can even fix a broken initramfs from a boot disk. And of course, the UFS they deploy allows me to reinstall them all I want and even share the EXACT SAME /home between operating systems on my machine. You just can't do that with Windows. Period.
That's because I don't just computer, or computer hard... I SUPERCOMPUTER HARD
Thanks!!!
Instead, it looks like this:
C:\WINDOWS>CD
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS>
I went past this or ignored the fact that it wasn't C:/> by doing the other steps, but when I got to typing:
C: ATTRIB -H C:\\boot.ini
C:ATTRIB -S C:\\boot.ini
C:ATRIB -R C:\\boot.ini
It said something along the lines that they couldn't find it.
Totally lost as to what to do.
To be more specific, after I put the:
C:\WINDOWS>ATTRIB -H C:\\BOOT.INI
C:\WINDOWS>ATTRIB -S C:\\BOOT.INI
C:\WINDOWS>ATRIB -R C:\\BOOT.INI
C:\WINDOWS>DEL BOOT.INI
It says "No matching files were found."
I continue, though, with the bootcfg commands all the way down to the
C:\WINDOWS>CHKDSK /R /F
But it says "The parameter is not valid. Try /? for help."
I have a Windows XP x64 Edition. It's a dinosaur, and remember that my commands have "C:\WINDOWS>" instead of just "C:\" because it will not allow me to just have C:\.
Anyone know what to do?
but i got the following massage :
error: failed to successfully scan disk for window installations. this error may be caused bu a corrupt file system, which would prevent Bootcfg from successfully scanning. use chkdsk to detect any disk errors...
what should i do next ? please help thanks