Name: Fuck Windows 2007-02-28 19:26 ID:dlV5V39s
- I was trying to install Vmware 5.5
- Couldn't; kept giving me messages to the effect of "Error 1402 - Cannot access [various registry keys] - insufficient permission."
- Went to Regedit and tried to modify permissions manually. Wouldn't let me. Said "Error accessing key."
- Tried running Regedit under System account using PsExec. Same thing.
- Killed all nonessential processes and svchost.exe's (using Process Explorer). Managed to change permission of the outerkey ("MiscStatus") but not the innerkey ("1").
- Rebooted into Safe mode. When it asked if i wanted to allow sptd.sys to run, I said no. Bluescreened (the process mistakenly set nonpaged memory as paged or something like that)
- Rebooted one more time, and allowed driver to load. Tried Psexec trick to change key permissions. No luck.
- Rebooted again. Windows XP logo comes up, and then screen goes weird for a second and goes black (like monitor could not handle video card graphics mode).
- Says "Windows cannot find E:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM" and to insert original disc and use 'r' for repair options
- Don't know what I should do at the recovery console.
- What would you all do at this point. HD is in another computer at the moment. All partitions are intact and the Windows partition seems to be fine.
- Couldn't; kept giving me messages to the effect of "Error 1402 - Cannot access [various registry keys] - insufficient permission."
- Went to Regedit and tried to modify permissions manually. Wouldn't let me. Said "Error accessing key."
- Tried running Regedit under System account using PsExec. Same thing.
- Killed all nonessential processes and svchost.exe's (using Process Explorer). Managed to change permission of the outerkey ("MiscStatus") but not the innerkey ("1").
- Rebooted into Safe mode. When it asked if i wanted to allow sptd.sys to run, I said no. Bluescreened (the process mistakenly set nonpaged memory as paged or something like that)
- Rebooted one more time, and allowed driver to load. Tried Psexec trick to change key permissions. No luck.
- Rebooted again. Windows XP logo comes up, and then screen goes weird for a second and goes black (like monitor could not handle video card graphics mode).
- Says "Windows cannot find E:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM" and to insert original disc and use 'r' for repair options
- Don't know what I should do at the recovery console.
- What would you all do at this point. HD is in another computer at the moment. All partitions are intact and the Windows partition seems to be fine.