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Windows Server 2003 - Corrupted Registry Hive

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Well, here are the unfortunate details:
The power went out yesterday and apparently, our UPS batteries were no good. So, the server lost power without being gracefully shut down.

Today, when we powered back up, the following message appeared at the login screen:
Windows - Registry Hive Recovered
Registry hive (file) Software was corrupted and it has been recovered.Some data might have been lost.

I can login as admin but all I get is a blue (blank) desktop. No start menu or desktop icons. So, I thought it was a corrupted user profile so I logged in as another admin user, same result, no icons or start menu etc. I then renamed the administrator profile and logged back in as admin. It went through creating all the customizations etc but then still ended up with no icons or start menu.

I thought I would then try recovering the registry hive from a backup. Well, it turns out that our DATA backups were working well, but our SYSTEM backup was not. So, no luck there.

So, any thoughts how to fix this? Googling around hasn't led me to much for proposed solutions.

Thanks.
 
c:\windows\system32\config may also contain a reg .bak file, but sometimes they are older. Instead of using the CMD line you could use a linux live disc to copy and replace but only do the one hive that is corrupted.
 
bigdogchris said:
c:\windows\system32\config may also contain a reg .bak file, but sometimes they are older. Instead of using the CMD line you could use a linux live disc to copy and replace but only do the one hive that is corrupted.
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A Linux live disc usually does seem to be the easiest way to go about it w/o messing with permissions & such.
 
You may want to run a chkdsk on that system drive. It sounds like disk corruption.
 
Log in and try opening the task manager (doing a Ctrl+Shift+Escape or Ctrl+Alt+delete)

There you can do the Run command and type in "explorer.exe" w/o the quotes... this would bring back desktop icons and the taskbar.

You could also get to the Run dialogue by doing Windows Key+R
 
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