Solved edit registry w/o Win 7?

[GranPaSmurf]

Sorry for the delay. I have continued installation, it is now preparing desktop. Before we are done, I want to be sure I have set up properly for back-up, restore points and restore/repair image

 

[karlsnooks]

Sorry for the delay. I have continued installation, it is now preparing desktop. Before we are done, I want to be sure I have set up properly for back-up, restore points and restore/repair image

Excellent. Very wise.

You will automatically have restore points as long as you don't go changing anything or trying to use one of those wonder "speedup/cleanup your system" programs.

Nos to making the System Image:
Do you have an external USB drive?

My preference is an external USB drive although we can hook up one of your extra hard disks and use it for a backup location.

The backup location MUST be on a disk separate from the one you are backing up.

Let me know when install is finished.
I recommend going ahead and choosing Windows Update and making sure that you have chosen to let it update drivers and MS programs.

This first time there will be a volley of updates, but nowhere near as bad as one has when updating XP for the first time.

 

[GranPaSmurf]

right now it is still verifying the Windows Anytime Upgrade #. Yes, I have an external USB drive. On the snip from a few days ago, it is labeled BackupMax (Maxtor). it is 300 Gig.
so, after the upgrade is complete will be the time to shut down & attach the External drive for back-up, right?

 

[karlsnooks]

right now it is still verifying the Windows Anytime Upgrade #. Yes, I have an external USB drive. On the snip from a few days ago, it is labeled BackupMax (Maxtor). it is 300 Gig.
so, after the upgrade is complete will be the time to shut down & attach the External drive for back-up, right?

Very Good.

Let's first do the update then the backup.

You will do following to update:
Control Panel | Windows Update | in the left-hand pane click on Change
Settings | check all of the boxes.

I've included a couple of snips. You will see that I manually update rather than the auto update, but for now Auto Update will be the wiser choice.

 

[GranPaSmurf]

Installing 55 important updates

 

[karlsnooks]

Looks like the number has grown since the last time that I started at ground zero.

After the updates finish and you've done any and all required reboots, choose Windows Update again. Sometimes there are updates to the updates. You just keep choosing Windows Update until Windows Update tells you there are no more.

The only optional updates that I leave off are the ones for other languages (which I think is a Win 7 Ultimate thing only) and the Live Essentials since I do not use hotmail, Windows Mail, Windows blog writer, Windows MovieMaker or Windows Chat or any of those things. But that is a personal choice. When it comes to using Windows Messenger, Windows Chat, etc and you have questions, someone else will be able to help you.

Oh yes, after all critical updates are installed, you check the optional updates and let it update your keyboard, video, wifi adapter, etc drivers.
Papa Microsoft knows best.

 

[GranPaSmurf]

I do some messaging, but not from this machine. This is my development machine & I try to keep a lot of the play stuff off it. My laptop & another machine are for that. Even then, mostly I message out of Gmail page.
I do, however use MS Security Essentials. I will get it on after we get the configuration set up.
Oh, yeah, I need to be sure I have XP Mode Virtual Machine working before we call it done.

 

[karlsnooks]

When the updates have updated, then:
We will make a System Repair Disc,
next a system image backup,
next install XP mode,
make a system image backup.

Here's how to make the System Repair Disc which we hope you don't really need but it's rather like you always want a spare tire in the trunk in case you have a flat.

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[FONT=&quot]DISC - CREATE A SYSTEM REPAIR DISC[/FONT]​

START | type System Repair | Enter key | Create Disc button

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[karlsnooks]

Back in two hours. CST is 1815.

 

[GranPaSmurf]

Okey Dokey. Just restarting after first run of updates

 

[GranPaSmurf]

up & running. downloaded security & ccleaner & Chrome & drivers for dual monitors. I am going to hang it up for tonight. Back about 6 A
M

 

[karlsnooks]

Good.

 

[GranPaSmurf]

before we are done I hope you will teach me or tell me why Win7 denies access to my documents. I am the only user and I am the one and only administrator, but "access denied" ? In earlier installation I set my permissions, but why should I have to?

 

[karlsnooks]

I have no idea what time zone you are in. I'm in Central Standard Time,CST.

Remind me about the access problem when all else is finished.

Would you make a snapshot of the present output of Disk Management?

Need that to correctly advise on next step.

 

[GranPaSmurf]

I am just down the road from you, Universal City, just north of San Antonio. But I need another hour or so. I will be back to the systems around 2 pm.

 

[karlsnooks]

OK.

 

[GranPaSmurf]

I have a glitch. This is an older board, the SATA system will not see the 1 Tb drive. A couple of months ago when I bought the large HDD, I added a Silicone Image card to support the drive. It needed a bios flash which I did back then to see the drive. I had to redo that this morning. Now the large drive is visible in My Computer, but the Computer Management Console will not fully deploy the Disk Management. I reads at the bottom "Connecting to Virtual Disk Service...". Resource Monitor shows only about 2% CPU load. Also, Safe Mode refuses to get past "ClassPNP.exe" file.

Wait...the Disk Management shows now...

 

[GranPaSmurf]

snip

 

[seekermeister]

I only read a few of the first posts of the thread, so I don't know how germane it is, but I recently had a problem very similar to this...did you use Paragon Partition Manager? If so, in the future use something else. My boot hung at the login screen also, until I disconnected drive 0 (non-OS). I think that PPM was also involved in the failure of that drive, when I later attempted to delete a raw partition at the front of that drive.

Like I said, I only scanned the thread, but I think that you said that Drive 0 is your OS drive, and if that is the case, I'm not sure what happened, but it must have to do with MBR, or MFT corruption.

 

[karlsnooks]

Sure wish you would check in with me before you take those plunges.

Let's see if we can recover without having to go back to ground zero.

Part of yo problem, if not all of it, is caused by having more than one active partition in your system.

What you need to do is:
1 Boot up from that System Repair Disc.
2. Go to a command prompt and run
3. DiskPart
4. type List Disk
5. type select disk n where n is the number that correponds to one of the drives which your disk managment shows as being "active.
Right now you have three drives marked as active.
We only want one, the C, to be active.
6. OK you selected one of those other active drives.
7l type Detail Disk
Read what is there and make sure you got one of those two extra active drives.
8. type Select Partition 1 (since on the disk, partition 1 will be the first one)
9. type INACTIVE
10. Repeat this for the other drive that was marked active that shouldn't have been.
11. when finished, type Exit
12 remove the Repair Disc,
13. type exit