re: Found corrupt key in registry but won't let me delete
Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jcw
(5100 messages posted)
You said:
"I even tried to delete the USB path with the hope of restoring it with exported
file but that failed too with the following error message while trying to delete
it: 'Cannot Delete USB : Error while deleting key'."
Did you mean that you tried to delete the entire USB key (under Enum) with the idea
of then merging or importing the previously exported USB key back into the registry?
If yes, that would have been my next suggestion as well.
Did you try deleting the USB key by first booting into safe mode with command prompt
(not safe mode boot and then opening the command prompt window) and using the
"reg delete" command as I described in a prior post at:
-> http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1135283897
If that doesn't do it, you could try to export/back-up the entire Enum key, check
it to assure that it doesn't have the corrupt Vid sub-key, and then try delete the
Enum key, and restore it with its backed-up version.
BUT before you try that, take a look at my prior post referenced above about contacting
"F15hii."
I'll ask the same thing I asked of the previous poster: would you please post your
findings and results - good or bad - so that others might benefit from your experience.
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