How to edit registry of a hard drive from a different computer???

[Xtreme11]

I moved around my partitions and now Windows comes up with a error saying the pagefile does not exist or is too small...aka it can't find it. The problem is to fix this the OS needs to load up fully, and it just keeps popping this message up and won't finish loading up. If I hook this hard drive up to another Win2K computer, how do I edit the registry on it? If I can do that, then I can change the pagefile values so they match up and everything will be happy again...

Thanks for any help

 

[Xtreme11]

^BUMP!^

Hasn't anyone ever tried this before? Like, if something messed up (aka you) a registry setting and caused the computer not to boot up anymore. So, you hook up that hard drive to a computer that works and edit the registry from there to fix it... I know how to fix it, but I don't know how to edit the registry of the messed up computer in the first one...

Please!!!

 

[LiLithTecH]

I think you are going about it all wrong.

The Pagefile is the Win2k swap file.

You can try booting with a DOS bootdisk and doing a FDISK /mbr to see if that helps.

or

To REPAIR it, you either have to use the Win2k CD and tell it to do a Repair (which very seldom works)
When using the Win2k CD Repair, choose M (manual) as the Fast will not help you in this case.

or use at your own risk

if you have the Recovery Console installed:

Boot into Recovery Console.
Because you boot into the %SystemRoot% folder (most commonly the C:\Winnt folder), type the following command:
cd \
Type the following command to overwrite the existing Pagefile.sys file with Boot.ini:
copy c:\boot.ini pagefile.sys
Type the following command:
del pagefile.sys
After you copy Boot.ini over to Pagefile.sys, Pagefile.sys appears in the directory listing.


You can not edit the Registry to fix the Pagefile that I am aware of.

 

[Xtreme11]

Thanks for the help. I am sure you can edit the pagefile attributes through the registry, I read a paper on doing it on MSoft's website. I ended up just throwing 98se on there and setting it up... haha.

 

[Smilin]

RTFM.

Check the helpfiles under Regedt32. Look for a topic on 'how to load a hive'.

 

[Xtreme11]

Thanks, that looks like it would have worked.... I'll have to try it next time (crossed fingers), err... maybe there won't be a next time.

Xtreme11