Windows wont boot

[NooNoo]

How did your fix the system file?

[CCT]

In post #9 you said: 'copy c:\windows(winnt)\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak'.

Wouldn't you have been copying FROM the system.bak TO the system ?


There is also the Expand option I believe under Recovery Console.

[cgonzo]

If the most important thing is to recover the photos, try booting your computer from a CD such as Knoppix or Barts PE Builder. That way you can get your computer running and try to browse the hard drive and see if your picture files can be rescued.

Here is a good instruction for using Knoppix to rescue files
http://lifehacker.com/software/disk-...-cd-192982.php

PE Builder is good too, but a little more complicated to create the disk.

[mart69]

Hi try Norton Ghost 9 Boot disk this came in very handy for me a couple of times where I could not access the drives in normal boot

[cometflash]

How did your fix the system file?

I locate the RP files from the system restore folder, and copy the system file from there.

I think the problem was that I try Microsoft suggestion and copy/delete files:

md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default

copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default

So the sam file probable got lost or corrupted in the process, and I get the password error message.


I'm getting my new PC today, and I don't have a anti virus just yet, is it any good free anti virus the anyone here would recommend?

[NooNoo]

www.avast.com do a nice free version for domestic use.

[cometflash]

If the most important thing is to recover the photos, try booting your computer from a CD such as Knoppix or Barts PE Builder. That way you can get your computer running and try to browse the hard drive and see if your picture files can be rescued.

Here is a good instruction for using Knoppix to rescue files
http://lifehacker.com/software/disk-...-cd-192982.php

PE Builder is good too, but a little more complicated to create the disk.

Now that I got my new PC, I download the files on the link you post it, and burn then to a cd (boot cd), the thing is when the computer starts I get to a DR-dos command, and I have no idea how to use, from the page were you post, it doesn't say anything about a DR-dos command.

[cometflash]

Sorry for double post, I don't see a option to edit post.

I find out what I did wrong, I burn it as a dater and I supposed to burn as image cd. Now it works, thank you so very much for your help. And thanks for everyone that tried helping me.

[cgonzo]

Glad to be of help.

[cometflash]

Ok I finally got the USB drive to get the pictures out of the old PC.

First I wasn't able to copy and paste to the drive, it seems that all the files in my old PC had become "read only", so I uncheck that in the drive, and the USB drive as well (which for some reason was check as read only as well), and I was able to copy and paste to the USB drive.

Ok, so no problem there, until I try to paste those files in my new PC, lots of the pictures that I paste to my new PC, is not opening. I try to get then again, but I keep getting that the picture is to small, or corrupted, and cannot be open. I try open those pictures on the old PC, and it did open with no problem. Is it something I'm doing wrong?

I tough about just using the internet and uploading then (I haven't try using the internet on this boot CD), but I got 1000's of pictures, so that would take forever.

[cgonzo]

The fact that the drives were 'read only' at first is normal with Knoppix.

At this point, since the Knoppix rescue seems to be giving you problems, have you considered attaching your old hard drive to your new system and configuring it as a slave? Then you could copy files from the old drive to your new one.