My comp has crashed!! HELP PLZ!

RilindRilind
edited September 2009 in Hardware
hi

Each time i try to start my comp i get an error msg about "The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SECURITY"

can i fix it? I dont wanna delete the whole hardrive becuase i have some important files and pic i want to save (no not porn;)...

Im using Vista.

thx

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  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Rilind wrote:
    hi

    Each time i try to start my comp i get an error msg about "The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SECURITY"

    can i fix it? I dont wanna delete the whole hardrive becuase i have some important files and pic i want to save (no not porn;)...

    Im using Vista.

    thx

    Sounds like run of the mill registry corruption.

    What you want to do is boot from your windows CD and run the recovery console to repair the installation (repair, not restore).

    Do you have your installation disk?
  • RilindRilind
    edited September 2009
    Cliff_Forster wrote:
    Sounds like run of the mill registry corruption.

    What you want to do is boot from your windows CD and run the recovery console to repair the installation (repair, not restore).

    Do you have your installation disk?

    yes i do have but i have never done it with vista, so im abit afraid that i will ruin everthing.

    Closer watch on the msg gives me different msg every time.. security, default, and software.
  • RilindRilind
    edited September 2009
    actully when im looikng for the CD i cant find it:S, when i first installed the comp i never used a CD and i have never seen it....
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Insert the Windows Vista DVD and boot from it.

    STEP ONE:
    Click repair your computer...

    windows-vista-startup-repair-4.jpg

    STEP TWO:
    Select "startup repair."

    SystemRecoveryOptions.png

    Given that your system reports a different registry piece every time (security, default, software, etc.) I'd say there's a pretty decent chance your Windows install is beyond recovery, however.

    If the startup repair fails, we can recover your data, but you'll have to reinstall.
  • RilindRilind
    edited September 2009
    what happends if i go through the recovery manager and copy the files i want? where do they go?
  • RilindRilind
    edited September 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    Insert the Windows Vista DVD and boot from it.

    STEP ONE:
    Click repair your computer...

    windows-vista-startup-repair-4.jpg

    STEP TWO:
    Select "startup repair."

    SystemRecoveryOptions.png

    Given that your system reports a different registry piece every time (security, default, software, etc.) I'd say there's a pretty decent chance your Windows install is beyond recovery, however.

    If the startup repair fails, we can recover your data, but you'll have to reinstall.

    looking thorugh my house right now for the CD:confused2

    and about the second part, well it tries to do that all the time by itself but it doesnt work. if u press F8 before start i also get that choose "repair" i also get that window without the CD in it, but i also have another option in the end called "recovery manager" where i can copy my files and stuff but i have no ide where the get copy to...


    "EDIT"

    Ah thank good for COMPAQ, it seems like onl compaq have that "Recovery" and im transfering everything i want to a CD...
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Rilind wrote:
    yes i do have but i have never done it with vista, so im abit afraid that i will ruin everthing.

    Closer watch on the msg gives me different msg every time.. security, default, and software.

    Make sure your bios is set to boot from disk as priority and put in your instalation media.

    Is it a Microsoft typical installation disk, or is an OEM disk of some kind, like a restore disk from Dell or compaq?

    Either way, just load the media, it wont automatically make any destructive changes, if you don't understand what to do, list the available options here and I can walk you through it. You want to repair your installation, nor restore, or reinstall it. There are even better options by going into the recovery command prompt and trying to repair the system boot, but first I have to know, what kind of computer, what kind of installation media do you have?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Cliff: As a note, Windows Vista cannot perform a repair install unless the OS can be loaded. If startup repair doesn't work, you have to reformat. Yes, it's dumb as shit.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Rilind wrote:
    actully when im looikng for the CD i cant find it:S, when i first installed the comp i never used a CD and i have never seen it....

    Do you have an OEM system with a recovery partition? Is there some kind of bios prompt that tells you to press a function key to get to the repair console?

    What is your systems make and model?
  • RilindRilind
    edited September 2009
    Cliff_Forster wrote:
    Make sure your bios is set to boot from disk as priority and put in your instalation media.

    Is it a Microsoft typical installation disk, or is an OEM disk of some kind, like a restore disk from Dell or compaq?

    Either way, just load the media, it wont automatically make any destructive changes, if you don't understand what to do, list the available options here and I can walk you through it. You want to repair your installation, nor restore, or reinstall it. There are even better options by going into the recovery command prompt and trying to repair the system boot, but first I have to know, what kind of computer, what kind of installation media do you have?

    thx for the help but i got to find the vista CD but my moms says that she might have accendetly throwen it:sawed:

    anyway, i think ive saved all the files that i wanted through the "recovery".

    i use a Vista premium, Compaq.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    Cliff: As a note, Windows Vista cannot perform a repair install unless the OS can be loaded. If startup repair doesn't work, you have to reformat. Yes, it's dumb as shit.

    Duh, forgot we were talkin Vista, I'm repairing XP installs all the time (It seems like a 2nd job sometimes) XP won't boot, I say, whats new, give it to me...

    The Vista, & 7 startup repair manager seems to work itself out more often than not, guess not on this one.
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