help booting labtop!

Discussion in 'Software' started by wonderd, Apr 25, 2007.

  1. wonderd

    wonderd Private E-2

    hello i have a dell pentium 3 labtop with microsoft windows 2000 professional and i have recently installed system mechanics professional 6 and i went to the registry fixer in system mechanics and ran the startup registry compactor and now i get a blue screen on startup does anyone know how i can fix this like a boot disk or something i realy need your help, and the labtop dosent have a cd drive just flopy
     
    wonderd, Apr 25, 2007
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  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Can you boot into safe mode and choose "last known good configuration"?

    Tap f8 on boot and the safe mode choices will appear. This is in XP, so I assume it is under 2k as well.

    P.S Does not help now, but registry compacting, and even cleaning, is really not going to give you noticeable performance increase and without a backup can be problematic like this. See if System Mechanic has a regisry restore when you get into safe mode and restore it as a second option.

    Then read this and keep your pc running great... For free.
    http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=106650
     
    Major Attitude, Apr 25, 2007
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  3. wonderd

    wonderd Private E-2

    i tried the last known configuration and it dosent help it still performs the same task and results in a blue screen there has to be a way around this just so i can log onto the computer and uncheck system mechanics from doing this
     
    wonderd, Apr 25, 2007
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  4. wonderd

    wonderd Private E-2

    the blue screen says "system cannot load the hive (file): \systemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE

    is anyway i can overwrite this corrupted file with a new one ?
     
    wonderd, Apr 25, 2007
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  5. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Try safe mode, then start system mechanic and see if there is a registryy backup. There should be.
     
    Major Attitude, Apr 25, 2007
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  6. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Major Attitude, Apr 25, 2007
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  7. wonderd

    wonderd Private E-2

    i tried safe mode there is nuthing that says anything about system mechanics : /
     
    wonderd, Apr 25, 2007
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  8. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    If you can boot from safe mode, run System Mechanic (the tool you said you think caused the problem) from Windows and look for the restore registry, it has to be there somewhere.

    Otherwise, try the steps in my previous post. One will work.
     
    Major Attitude, Apr 25, 2007
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  9. wonderd

    wonderd Private E-2

    i cant i dont have a windows xp recovery councel
     
    wonderd, Apr 25, 2007
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  10. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Ahhh, any 2k users online who can help here?
     
    Major Attitude, Apr 25, 2007
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  11. wonderd

    wonderd Private E-2

    bump is there anyway i can download the software onto a ipod then boot from that?
     
    wonderd, Apr 26, 2007
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