"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Lorraine
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> How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from
> starting
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/
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> What you say suggests to me that you are not logging on as the
> Administrator. The process is referred to in the link.
>
> Good luck.
Alternately, that the folder creation is being attempted in an area outside
of the Recovery Console's scope. It is by default limited. The scope can
be expanded, but it may be too late to do that just now.
In a worst-case, it's simple to adapt the directions at the KB article
you've identified to other drive-access methods, most of which are *much*
friendlier than the recovery console. Attaching the drive to another
system as a slave, perhaps via an external USB2 case or adapter, or with a
Linux boot CD, are two examples.
HTH
-pk
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> Gerry
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> Lorraine wrote:
>> when I start the recovery process for this error in Windows XP and I
>> type in "md tmp", it tells me "access denied". I can't go any
>> further to fix the above problem. Why is this happening? Thanks for
>> your help. Lorraine
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