RC = Recovery Console
.. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the
computer.
2. Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from
the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted to do so.
3. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press "R" to start the
Recovery Console.
4. If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, choose the
installation that you need to access from the Recovery Console.
5. When you are prompted to do so, type the Administrator password.
Note: This password for the default Administrator account is set when
installing Windows XP. If you have not set a password for it, press Enter.
Step 2: In the command mode, type the following commands and press Enter at
the end of each one. Please connect a USB drive to the non booting XP
machine. I assume the USB drive is H:
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CD system32
Copy config H
Step 3: Connect the USB drive to a known working XP machine. On the working
XP machine, perform the following steps.
1. Open Registry Editor.
2. In the registry tree (on the left), click either the HKEY_USERS or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys.
3. On the File menu, click Load Hive.
4. In Look in, click the drive, folder, or network computer and folder that
contains the hive you want to load. The hive is the files such as System,
Software, default and etc in the folder H
Config
5. Click Open.
6. In Key Name, type the name that you want to assign to the hive, and then
click OK.
"Jose" <jose_ease@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:6f95e15a-86e6-4c39-a8c4-a2879d0b4444@g29g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
On Jan 26, 6:50 am, "Jack B. Pollack" <N...@NE.nothing> wrote:
> Looking for a way to read values out of a non working computers registry
> from within a working copy of Windows.
> (load a hive from a non booting XP machine).
>
> I know it can be done from the RC, but it is so slow to boot to RC just to
> quickly compare a few values.
>
> Is there any 3rd party software. I used to have a program for Win98 that
> would do this )cant remember name).
Does RC mean Recovery Console?
I would like to know how read values from registry using the RC.