I installed Norton Systemworks 2006 and have been getting a comment something
to the effect that it cannot access Registry. I have ignored this all along
but fatefully - yesterday - I decided to edit the Registry per the
recommendations I followed (I forget if I received them at Symantec or
somewhere else....it's been a long night).
So I went into LOCALMACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT....CLSID and attempted to
change the permissions in CLSID (I realize I may have left out part of the
path - that is why the '....' is between MICROSOFT and CLSID). It didn't
give me any option to do that, regardless of the tab I was on. So I went to
a tab that had two check boxes relative to permissions. The top box was
checked, but I checked the bottom box. As I result I get the first Windows
screen (black background) then it goes to a Microsoft Windows XP and sits
there - forever.
I tried to use the Recovery Console - chkdsk /r said it repaired some
errors, but it still won't boot. Tried to run a utility to fix the Registry
and it will not run outside of Windows so, when I ran it in the Recovery
Console, it said it found errors but could not fix them. I tried FIXBOOT and
still cannot boot.
I can backup the files on the hard drive and restore but that's about 20
hours of work to get everything back to where it was (I don't think I can
clone/copy the drive in Ghost without that image including whatever is
currently ailing my system.
Any help as to how I can get into Windows to try to repair the Registry or
even look to see if I have a Registry Back-up that I can restore?
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