John You may want to put your post in the XP Forum just to start with.. Do you have a mate that can give you a hand with the install of XP and at this point the recovery of XP. Laptops can be a real pain if things go bad like in your case. It will now take a bit of work to get it up and running and save your files from the NT4 OS... ------------------------------ Good Luck Click Here for many tips from Annoyances Org. Trouble Shooting If can't find the fix try this Click Here Windows Annoyances Org Humor !!! τΏτ DEX ------------------------------------------------------------ On Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 4:16 am, John wrote: >Hope someone can help. I am not computer savvy: > >I have a HP laptop (Omnibook 6100). It was running NT4.0 (workstation). Before I >upgraded to XP Pro SP1, I hade to clean my registry. Of course I made a back up of >the entire registry first and than cleaned up. After installing XP I hade some problems >(problably due to wrongly cleaning some entries in the registry). Luckely (!) I had >a back up of the registry and could do the whole thing again: restore the registry >and run the XP upgrade again. > >I know I was stupid: I restored my NT registry over my current XP installation!!!!!!!!!!!. > >Now I cannot boot up my laptop anymore. I still can open the boot (Esc. during start) >screen for selection of safe mode etc. but it does not react to any selection. It >start Windows (XP) for half a second but failes immediately and restarts automatically, >etc. > >Of course I tried to reboot from CD or even boot floppies. I still can have excess >to this menu (after F2 during start). It seems however it does not detect/react or >to ignore my selections: neither CDROM nor Other Device (floppy) is reacting. > >I hope there is some way to get the laptop running again (in whatever mode) so I >can start (parallel) reinstalling or recovering data. I would very much like to save >my data currently on the HD. > >Anybody any suggestion? > >Thanks a lot, >John
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