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Old April 27th 17, 03:57 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Diesel
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Default Virtual XP won't start

tesla sTinker
news alt.windows7.general, wrote:

should of emailed me...
I dont always hang on this group..

You know how to rename a file dont you?
Its that simple, you just have to find the old dated one that is
the backup of it. Then rename it after you have moved the other
one and put the backup in its place, so that its named exactly the
same as the one that is messed up. But copy that one to a folder
that you make calling it, old file system file.... Or something
that you want to call it, so if you need it again, you can just
revert back to it in case you choose poorly of which one is the
good backup. There may be more than one backup file of it.
Depending on how much the machine has been used...


I'm not sure he'll actually be able to do this, since it's not
booting at all; he'd need to be able to boot the virtual machine from
a usb stick and/or boot disk. I'd recommend bartpe for this.

He *should* be able to find a copy of the registry hive files (the
system file you referenced is one of them) in the system restore
folder, pending he hasn't got it disabled. Going by date stamps, I'd
resort to using the one that exists prior to his inability to boot.

Rather than copy one of the hive files over, I'd opt for copying ALL
of them over...This way, he won't have other, odd issues down the
road, if it turns out being a corrupted hive file. You want to keep
the hive files in sync if at all possible.

If he can set an option on vpc not to close the window when it
crashes out and post the resulting error message, it's possible more
detailed help could be provided to assist.

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