P1220 - Fixing corrupted/missing registry

[crkjames]

Working on a couple of Radiant P1220-0269's running XP Embedded/Aloha on uDOCs. Neither will boot into Windows - one with a "missing or corrupt system" file, other with "missing or corrupt software" file. My first thought was to try just replacing the bad files with the corresponding good file from the other machine. Created a boot USB flash drive to run Linux to do the copying/replacing and found that the first machine is missing the entire windows/system32/config folder. Also cannot find a windows/repair folder on either machine.

A couple of questions - can I just copy the missing/corrupt files/folders from a working terminal (I assume that Windows on all the same model terminals would be configured identically)? Second - generally is there a default administrator password for these systems? (I want to launch repair console to run chkdsk on the terminals.)

Thanks for your help!

 

[chuckymafia]

I have one loaded for that. Yet it is pre programmed to my setup. I can walk you through how to change the info. Yet they are pretty easy to modify to fit your needs. As far as a password. I have the images setup and they autoload. You can edit that and require a user name and password at log on. Yet it is all up to you.
Secondly As far as I am concerned. I would rather do a fresh install on Any Windows, rather than to try and patch it.

 

[IRUNMAN]

If they are just Aloha terminals, you are better off just re-imageing those terminals. The setup process for putting in a terminal for aloha would be a lot faster then trying to copy/fix windows file to boot to windows.

 

[AlohaRoss]

I have a ghost image I can share with you, I have it on a bootable usb. I can reimage a machine in about 5 minutes with xp embedded.
ross at eandrcomputers.com