Hi everyone, i am new here. I have a problem with mi windows Xp with a message of some unable to find register in:
systemroot\system32\config\DEFAULT
I searched in google in another computer and i found this instructions from microsoft website.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q307545
I needed a windows xp cd (i got it from a friend) and with the Recovery Console i had to type:
md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak
delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default
copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default
and then some other instructions for the safe mode in windows.
However, when i type
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak
the console respond with “cannot copy file”
Fine, i searched google again and found this page:
http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/886894.htm
Someone wrote that in that case I should go direct to type
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default
cause there is no “default” file in the config directory. But when i do that, there is a message “Do you want to replace default file (Y/N)?”
I am confused, there is a default file, but i can not copy to a .bak file?
What do i do now? do replace the file? would there be a problem in the future for doing that?
I can not use windows Xp, not even with the safe mode.
Thanks for any help you can give me, and sorry for my bad english.
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The first part is ms telling you to make backups. Which if the system is unbootable is kinda useless anyway. Idea is to do backups before you have problems, not after.
So yes, you should be safe overwriting the files when it asks you to. Your in theory moving good files over and replacing the bad files with them. In layman's terms anyway. It's worth a shot.
Oh btw, the default directory is probably just hidden, try the command:
dir /ah *.*
or
dir /as *.*
That should show it.