How do you edit the registry if you can't get into windows?

[madman300]

I was working on the registry of a windows 2k machine and I moved drive letters around. The guy had the system booting from the F: drive. He was trying to install software onto the PC that wouldnt install without a C drive. So I changed the drive letters in the registry, but forgot to create a paging file for drive C:!

My question is now, this computer won't load into Windows so how do I get to the registry? I have another PC to move the hard drive into. I just dont know how to access its registry.

THanks in advance,

madison

 

[Bozo Galora]

ERD commander is a PE environment that lets you boot from a CD and access the windows registry in the regedit gui mode it also has other functions such as system restore. Also if you can get ahold of a copy of a program called WInPE it will let you do the same but is a near completely bootable copy of windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545


http://www20.tomshardware.com/...ndows-firstaid-21.html

 

[madman300]

actually I just put the drive as a secondary in another system and opened up that registries hive on the good computer and edited it. It seemed to work well.

madison

 

[Bozo Galora]

sometimes the simplest solution is the last one thought of - lol