sgiguy

Hey all! I've been registered for a few days now, and have already posted twice...so I figured I should introduce myself before I keep posting! I'm a software programmer in Saskatchewan, Canada here and am just starting to get into the hardware aspects of the computer world. The forum is great so far and I look forward to getting S-M-R-T'er by reading in! Cheers! sgiguy

Hi, Is there a way of repairing a corrupt registry while installing XP Home? When i try to install XP (from the CD) onto a clean drive, it fails on a corrupt hive file. Obviously something is bad in the registry. I read that you can install Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility on disk #6 of the XP Boot Disk set....do I HAVE to do this, considering I can still boot from the CD? Is there a better way of repairing the hive file/ registry without using the XP boot disks? I've read that you can replace the hive files with files from the c:\windows\repair folder...but only if there was a previous install of XP on there..which there wasn't. Any help would be greatly appreciated. sgiguy

Hey all, I'm a newbie to the group so i'd like to start off by saying hi. I'm having a problem installing XP Home on a HDD that previously had Win95 on it. I tried to install over 95, but that didn't work. So I wiped the drive and tried to install XP. After the copy files finishes, the install dies on me giving me this error: From what I've read, this is the part of the installation where it tries to create the registry keys, correct? Now, why am I getting this error? The XP CD that i'm using is a legal copy of XP and was not hacked. Is it that my XP CD is no good anymore? I'm not very sure where to start with this problem...any help would be very much appreciated!! Thanks in advance. Josh