PsalmBlaster
Technical User
Hi,
I recently edited my registry, removed a few keys that were in a tech guide (only to do with CD drives, mine had gone missing)
Anyway, after a restart I find my mouse and keyboard are nonresponsive. Removing and reinserting USB mouse leads to it being detected by windows but still no response frommovement. Also tried PS/2 keyboards and nothing will work. I made a backup of the changes I made to the registry, but even in safe-mode I cannot interact with the PC.
As a last resort I have grafted my XP boot disk onto a friends computer and can now access the files, I was hoping to be able to manually edit the files in windows/system32/config manually with the information stored in my .reg backup file.
To my dismay all the files in that folder are huge and not readable (coherently) in notepad, and I don't want to risk typing anythingin and making it worse.
Is there a way for me to get regedit to look at another registry, i.e. not the one that is being used on the computers running hard disk?
I have tried 'last good config' but no joy, also tried using a boot CD to get to the recovery console, that BSODs and I even wrote 6 boot diskettes with an MS app but they give me an error and wont take me to the recovery console (if that would even help)
Input works on BIOS and stops as soon as Windows gets involved at all.
I'm going on the assumption that it was my registry that causes the mouse and keyboard to not respond - if anyone has other ideas I'm open to them, but I doubt it was a coincidence.
I recently edited my registry, removed a few keys that were in a tech guide (only to do with CD drives, mine had gone missing)
Anyway, after a restart I find my mouse and keyboard are nonresponsive. Removing and reinserting USB mouse leads to it being detected by windows but still no response frommovement. Also tried PS/2 keyboards and nothing will work. I made a backup of the changes I made to the registry, but even in safe-mode I cannot interact with the PC.
As a last resort I have grafted my XP boot disk onto a friends computer and can now access the files, I was hoping to be able to manually edit the files in windows/system32/config manually with the information stored in my .reg backup file.
To my dismay all the files in that folder are huge and not readable (coherently) in notepad, and I don't want to risk typing anythingin and making it worse.
Is there a way for me to get regedit to look at another registry, i.e. not the one that is being used on the computers running hard disk?
I have tried 'last good config' but no joy, also tried using a boot CD to get to the recovery console, that BSODs and I even wrote 6 boot diskettes with an MS app but they give me an error and wont take me to the recovery console (if that would even help)
Input works on BIOS and stops as soon as Windows gets involved at all.
I'm going on the assumption that it was my registry that causes the mouse and keyboard to not respond - if anyone has other ideas I'm open to them, but I doubt it was a coincidence.