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What if I copy someone else's registry files?
My Win7 home premium 64bit registry is corrupt. I've tried repairing it using System Recovery Options and Startup Repair 3 times but they didn't work. I've tried to copy the files from windows32/system/config/regback to windows32/system/config still no luck (the back-up files seem to be more corrupt too, actually worse as it doesn't seem to follow the numbers in Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery, so I reversed it when I couldn't save that either as I made a backup of the original registry before using regback as suggested in Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery). I tried:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /RebuildBcd
But that didn't work.
I tried chkdsk d: f/ with dismount (my windows files are in d: with c: as a reserve). I tried sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=d:\windows also.
I have no backups saved and I already retrieved my documents from the computer. So my question is: Can I copy someone else's regback or even current registry files and just use theirs or will the system be too unstable. I was thinking of using someone's win 7 home premium 32bit though as I have the only computer with 64bit. And is there a way to copy program settings like from program files, specifically firefox as I like the way I have it customized and have some passwords saved on to it. I was thinking of first saving a backup of my current registry just in case.
So I would use an external harddrive (let's call it j):
cd d:\windows\system32\config
copy *.* j:\backupcurrent
Then copy the windows\system32\config\regback of a healthy Win7 computer, then
copy j:\windows\system32\config\regback\system d:\windows\system32\config\system
copy j:\windows\system32\config\regback\software d:\windows\system32\config\software
copy j:\windows\system32\config\regback\security d:\windows\system32\config\security
copy j:\windows\system32\config\regback\sam d:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy j:\windows\system32\config\regback\default d:\windows\system32\config\default
Thoughts?