The background to this issue is here
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3076506/asus-p5k-gigabyte-ex58-ud5-cloned-boot.html
but with a bit of luck I now have a simpler problem:
I cloned the 0.9TB HD to a 1.8TB one, so the old c: and d: are still c: and d: but the partitions are 2x bigger. This was done with Trueimage 13 and seems to have gone perfectly.
The cloned HD is still attached to the original machine and now I have c: and d: of the newly cloned HD showing as f: and g: (as one would expect)
I am now trying to do the registry edit described here
https://www.gcsdstaff.org/roodhouse/?p=867
but am having difficulty finding that registry. I have both regedit.exe and Resplendent Registry Editor (paid version from 2002, XP compatible). The latter has a load more features but I can't even find the file where this registry is!
I looked (on f: ) under Documents and Settings and there, under Peter (the login I use) I see NTUSER.DAT
and when I open that (which hangs up the PC for over a minute - that file is 11MB) I see this
i.e. I can't find the key
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG > SYSTEM > CURRENTCONTROLSET > ENUM
referred to in the above URL.
I have also found some stuff under f:\windows\system32\config (and googling suggests it should be there) but I see these
and none of them seem to editable with this registry editor...
I have done loads of googling and following the Load Hive option in regedt32 and going to
f:\windows\system32\config\system
(based on this
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724877(VS.85).aspx?)
I get this, for *any* file
The above is the basic problem. For some reason WinXP locks that "system" file even though it is not a registry of a running OS. I have used various utilities to see which process is locking it
Finally I managed to open "system" with Resplendent editor and it doesn't show CurrentControlSet (which is odd!) and if I try to delete the Enum key under Controlset001 or 002 it shows Access Denied!
Very many thanks for any help.
I need to get this HD to boot, because I really do not want to reinstall everything...
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3076506/asus-p5k-gigabyte-ex58-ud5-cloned-boot.html
but with a bit of luck I now have a simpler problem:
I cloned the 0.9TB HD to a 1.8TB one, so the old c: and d: are still c: and d: but the partitions are 2x bigger. This was done with Trueimage 13 and seems to have gone perfectly.
The cloned HD is still attached to the original machine and now I have c: and d: of the newly cloned HD showing as f: and g: (as one would expect)
I am now trying to do the registry edit described here
https://www.gcsdstaff.org/roodhouse/?p=867
but am having difficulty finding that registry. I have both regedit.exe and Resplendent Registry Editor (paid version from 2002, XP compatible). The latter has a load more features but I can't even find the file where this registry is!
I looked (on f: ) under Documents and Settings and there, under Peter (the login I use) I see NTUSER.DAT
and when I open that (which hangs up the PC for over a minute - that file is 11MB) I see this
i.e. I can't find the key
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG > SYSTEM > CURRENTCONTROLSET > ENUM
referred to in the above URL.
I have also found some stuff under f:\windows\system32\config (and googling suggests it should be there) but I see these
and none of them seem to editable with this registry editor...
I have done loads of googling and following the Load Hive option in regedt32 and going to
f:\windows\system32\config\system
(based on this
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724877(VS.85).aspx?)
I get this, for *any* file
The above is the basic problem. For some reason WinXP locks that "system" file even though it is not a registry of a running OS. I have used various utilities to see which process is locking it
Finally I managed to open "system" with Resplendent editor and it doesn't show CurrentControlSet (which is odd!) and if I try to delete the Enum key under Controlset001 or 002 it shows Access Denied!
Very many thanks for any help.
I need to get this HD to boot, because I really do not want to reinstall everything...
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