repair install stalling

Okay so I need some serious help here. I recently upgraded my cpu to a dual core one and only one core was detected so I did a repair install. The problem is, the repair install process stalls at about 2/3. I tried doing the repair install with the hard disk in another comp, same result. Now is there a way to fix this? Or does anyone know if I can use a linux live-cd to manually perform a repair install of windows?

www.opera.com

I've tried Opera, sucks about as hard as IE.

guys, I need a serious reply, not that opera, delete system32 and other crap

>>4
Install Linux.

>>5
That is not an option either since what I want right now is to get the repair install to complete so that I can use windows again plus I have all my data on that hard disk which I do not want to lose.

>>6
If you don't want to lose any data, then install Linux and you won't!

I'd prefer keeping my windows installation for now

Okay OP here. The repair install didn't work so I did a clean install. My files are all still there, so I just had to copy My Documents folder and all to get back my settings and start menu and all. Now I want to copy the registry back. The registry files are stored in %SystemRoot%\System32\Config\
Sam - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SAM
Security - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY
Software - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
System - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
Default - HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT
Userdiff

So my question is, which do I copy? I tried copying all of them and it fucked and I had to start all over.

gtfo winfag