Friday, September 25, 2009

Windows 2008 restore registry

Hi there, today how to restore your registry in Windows 2008.
It can happen that your OS is not booting because the registry is corrupt, here is the solution.

The main registry hives are located in \Windows\System32\config. Named: COMPONENTS, DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE and SYSTEM.
  1. Start your machine with the Windows 2008 install disk.
  2. Choose the "Repair" option.
  3. Go to \Windows\System32\config and rename the 6 files in .OLD.
  4. Copy the backup files from \Windows\System32\config\RegBack to \Windows\System32\config.
  5. Reboot you system. That's it.
By the way; this will also work with Vista.

1 comments:

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