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My advice: Boot a linux live distro (like Knoppix or systemrescue cd), move your data to an external harddrive. Reinstall OS (factory reset?) and learn :)
by svennek 12y ago
My advice: Boot a linux live distro (like Knoppix or systemrescue cd), move your data to an external harddrive.
Reinstall OS (factory reset?) and learn :)
- ionwake 12y agoThank you, this is a great idea, I just wonder if I will lose all of my registry settings.
- svennek 12y agoI think that is a given (i.e. yes!)
- BlakePetersen 12y agoIf it's 'brand new', there shouldn't be too much disparity between the recovery and your current state.
- edoceo 12y agoThere are reg dump tools on Linux. It will make a huge text file which you can dig through. On Windows I regularly dump HKCU for just such an occasion
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoYou may be able to role back to a registry before the offending change. I did this once when an AVG update borked my system before a vacation: Got back, could not boot. Googling confirmed a significant AVG bug, repaired within hours of my applying the update. Booted Knoppix, found a registry file dated just before the update (Windows at the time saved the last handful - this was XP several years ago), deleted the more recent ones, may have done some renaming, rebooted whilst holding my breath. All was well. Linux, the ultimate Windows recovery tool.
- sprkyco 12y ago+1 for Knoppix used it to recover some design plans from a coworkers computer. The hdd was doing "the click of death" and Knoppix was still able to recover 90% of the data and 100% of the important stuff. Needless to say his backups are now in triplicates.