I will report back in order to help (or amuse) others based on my experience. I feel like we've spent a lot of time looking for solutions, but not much time actually attempting solutions because we don't know what to try next.Īny suggestions or insight (even just tips or explanations on why our approach so far is flawed) is greatly appreciated.įull disclosure: I don't have access to the machine on the weekend, so I won't have a chance to try any suggestion until class resumes. Or any other method or third-party utility that might recover/rebuild/import the registry? Is there a way to use the recovery command prompt to import the.
reg file (we did not backup any registry files in the config folder), and we are able to use the command prompt in WinRE. No luck from: Last Known Good Configuration Startup Repair there was no Restore Point available CCleaner portable (it said it repaired 73 things, but the next bootup sent us back to Startup Repair, to no avail). We have a clean copy of Windows 7 on a bootable USB, so we are able to access WinRE. Not surprisingly, the system froze, so we restarted it manually.Īgain, it's Windows 7. I then deleted an entire hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
So my team when into regedit (GUI) and exported the entire registry as a. After discussing troubleshooting problems in Windows, we were turned loose and given the opportunity to break (and ideally fix) one of the designated computers just to see what happens and whether we could find a way to recover or if we have to eventually install a new copy of Windows 7 on top of the old one.īy the way, we are fully encouraged to seek help online and from any resource for everything other than exams, so I'm not cheating here.
I'm in a computer tech class where everyone is working towards CompTIA A+ certification.
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