Hiren's Boot CD

Parman · 11 Jan 2013

Regedit?

Alejandro85 · 11 Jan 2013

parman said:

Regedit?

No way, at least that I know.
Regedit only edits the local registry, that is the one of the running OS, that is, the registry of the mini-XP, NOT the one of the C drive.
At most, regedit can connect to a remote registry though a network, but that's not the case with Hirens CD.
I was thinking of an external tool that parses the Windows internal structures that hold the registry, if it's at all possible.

Parman · 11 Jan 2013

From regedit you can load a the hives.

Parman · 11 Jan 2013

When in registry editor, highlight HKLM (or whichever hive you need to load), then do a File>load hive navigate to (drive letter):\WINDOWS\System32\config of the crippled drive and highlight the file "Software" (or navigate to another hive you need to load) hit ok, it will ask you to name the hive it is about to load, give it a unique name like Test, hit OK, it will load the hive under HKLM with the name Test, Make and changes you need then highlight "Test" and do File>Unload Hive. Be sure to have the Test key highlighted when you select unload.

More info.

http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-o...stry-edit.html

Kaktussoft · 12 Jan 2013

Emoclaw said:

Hello all, I've tried to boot from Hiren's boot CD in a VM, It has such nice options, so I booted in mini windows xp(the cd has) and there were tools to run, but the problem is, most of them(registry editors, program uninstallers, and even scanners) only work with the Mini windows XP partition(The CD extracts it's tools into a temporary small partition)and I can't edit the original windows partition, I can only make changes in the mini windows's xp registry, and not the original, primary windows partition registry, some scanners also scan only the mini windows xp partition, any suggestions?

Has the original windows partition winxp as well? Or has it vista/win7?

What are you trying to change in original windows partition?

mmkarimi · 12 Jan 2013

what exactly you want to do, hiren boots into its own os, its like you install another os and expect uninstalling programs in the other os!!
with hiren boot cd you can easily get access to your information while your os is corrupt and can not boot into that. also it has some registry programs that runs through your os.