Typically I will repair the drive with a factory diagnostic if applicable, clone the drive to a new one if applicable, replace all 5 registry hives with a recent backup no matter which was corrupted, and use a program I wrote which runs chkdsk until no errors remain.
You can write this with a simple batch file as well, if chkdsk returns any errorlevel other than zero, re-run it. Naturally you will want to do the chkdsk part from your WinPE based boot CD, laptop, or tech bench system you are using to swap the registry hives.
Microsoft has officially documented the registry hive swap with a ton of unneeded steps starting with a parallel windows installation of course, but curiously with running system restore from safe mode AFTER swapping the hives.
HOW do I do that?? Down loaded the fix program and it gives me a runtime error. Any help would be appreciated. Looks like a great program. I built the CD, the troubled computer loaded it, with splashscreen , then asks for network connection.
Neither the keyboard nor mouse functions. What do I do? I made a tool to automate restoring an old registry snapshots to replace a corrupted registry hive.
It saves you the time of typing all the commands or dragging and dropping. It can be run from a windowsPE Disk or if you slave the offline drive to another computer. Please let me know if you find any bugs I have tested on a few computers with no issues.
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Restore the computer to a previous state before registry corruption occurred. One tool that you can use to back up registry hives is Recovery Console. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
Check the hardware, the disk, the firmware drivers, and the BIOS. To do this, follow these steps. These steps may require downtime for the computer. After you complete step 2, you may not see any change in behavior. To prevent the corruption, try to close all running processes before you shut down the computer.
You may be able to narrow the scope to a single process that is involved. Even if you determine the process, you may be unable to prevent a component from being unloaded before the registry hive is written to. However, if you make sure that you stop the process before shut down, you may be able to prevent registry hive corruption.
After you complete step 3, if you do not see any change in behavior, compare the registry hives. Capture a non-corrupted registry hive and a corrupted registry hive and then compare the two by using comparison tools such as Windiff. Determine which registry hive section is growing.
If it seems that the problem in the registry hive is growing too large, you may be able to determine which section is growing and to trace this back to a process that is writing to the hive. Original product version: Windows 10 - all editions, Windows Server R2 Original KB number: Summary If your computer does not restart, the registry hives may be corrupted.
More information There are many reasons why a registry hive may be corrupted. Power Failure A power failure or some other unexpected shutdown event may cause a corrupted registry hive. This hardware may include anything that is involved in writing to a disk, such as the following:. If you suspect faulty hardware, the hardware vendor must thoroughly investigate the condition of all computer components. If one or two registries hives consistently become corrupted for no reason, the problem probably occurs at shutdown and is not discovered until you try to load the registry hive at the next restart.
In this scenario, the registry hive is written to disk when you shut down the computer, and this process may stop the computer or a component in the computer before the writing is completed. Restore the computer to a previous state before registry corruption occurred.
One tool that you can use to back up registry hives is Recovery Console. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Check the hardware, the disk, the firmware drivers, and the BIOS. To do this, follow these steps. These steps may require downtime for the computer. After you complete step 2, you may not see any change in behavior. To prevent the corruption, try to close all running processes before you shut down the computer.
You may be able to narrow the scope to a single process that is involved. Even if you determine the process, you may be unable to prevent a component from being unloaded before the registry hive is written to.
However, if you make sure that you stop the process before shut down, you may be able to prevent registry hive corruption.
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