I am ONLY trying to Run Registry Cleaner on a USB drive (F:\) attached to my computer.
I need to re-direct it to the Registry on the External HD F:\ and not to the Boot C:\ Drive.
Is there a way to do this because Windows says the HD has a corrupt registry and then BSOD.
Please Help!
PhantomTech
You need to give a lot more info.
What operating system is on your boot C\drive
What operating system is on your F drive (external drive?)
It is unlikely that ccleaner will fix a drive that keeps getting a BSOD, ccleaner is a gentle registry cleaner not a registry rebuilder.
In what circumstances does the BSOD occur? Every time you try to boot?
Have you had any virus/malware problems lately?
C:\ is Windows 7 Ultimate
F:\ is Windows XP
But I want to do it NO Matter what the external drive Windows Operating System is.
Maybe a registry hack to redirect CCleaner to the external drive.
I am trying to fix a friends computer and WHO knows if running it will fix the problem or not.
I have already scanned it with Antivirus, MalwareBytes, S&D, etc... ALL OK
I would simply like to know if CCleaner Registry Cleaner can be redirected to F:\Windows\Systems32\Config
or where ever it is located, based on the External Drives Operating System.
Thanks
PT
I would simply like to know if CCleaner Registry Cleaner can be redirected to F:\Windows\Systems32\Config
or where ever it is located, based on the External Drives Operating System.
It would do you no good even if redirection were possible.
Although Windows 7 sees XP as being on partition F:\
the probability is that when XP was running it did so as residing in what at the time was partition C:\
therefore every registry key having a value including "C:\Documents and Settings" would find no such path on your Windows 7 system,
so CCleaner would determine that it was an invalid key that needed removal.
You would not have much of the registry hive left after CCleaner has removed what does not pertain to Windows 7.
Your best bet is a Registry Editor that can target registry hives.
I once mounted as P:\ an image file of a Windows system and used a registry editor to select / explore the HKLM registry hive.
That would have allowed deleting of keys as well - excepting mounted images are write protected.
I was probably using RegScan from Nirsoft.
failing which Google may give you answers.
Everybody on here knows more about this sort of thing than I, but for what its worth, I have been able to explore windows systems using Linux operating systems. Puppy Linux running in RAM, and others running from a live CD. But the environment looks very different, you have to know what you are looking at and know how to use some maybe unfamiliar tools. At least it was like that for me. You can "goof up" easier than you can in windows
DennisD is sort of the resident HD expert on here, and I would defer to his judgement in any situation. but an experiment with Puppy linux would only cost you a CD, especially considering that the XP system you are fixing is not working at all.
I'm a bit confused here. You can't run registry cleaning for a not live OS, you must boot the OS and registry celan from it.
... You can't run registry cleaning for a not live OS, ...
Yep, I just skipped that part, cause trying to run a registry cleaner on an OS mounted (running?) on a usb drive which BSODS anyway is too painful to contempate. Maybe Linux will let him see it, maybe he can recognize and fix the issues, maybe ...
Maybe this (though manual at least you can load (maybe) hive)
http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/Reading-secondary-drive--ftopict481262.html
of course this one says you can't http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic212597.html
so ?!?!