sgiguy Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 once the harddrive is formatted, their is no registry, the hiv file is what makes the registry, and having it currupt can mean its having problems making the registry, if uve edited it, fix it lolor if its still sayin that, and your using an original XP Disk (not 1 copied 2 your hdd for unattended install) call Microsoftgood luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 also, i just found this .... Corrupt hivesys.inf file while installing XP , Help!good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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