Clean Registry on Second Hard Drive

[ngdoherty]

Hi,

 

My question is :

 

Can CCleaner be used to check/fix the registry of a 2nd hardrive (not the primary drive on which the OS is running).

 

I know this is a long shot - but I thought I'd check it out just in case!

 

I have a PC which starts to log into Windows XP (completes the normal boot process) and then gives the blue screen - with a REGISTRY_ERROR

No new hardware installed - so my guess is some software update or a hardware failure e.g. RAM.

Starting from Known Good Config doesn't work - and neither does SAFE MODE.

So I added the drive as a 2nd hard drive on a working PC - so that I could run chkdsk to check and fix any drive errors.

Disk was regularly defragged - so don't think any issue with that.

That chkdsk report some errors - and fixes - but I still get the same error when using the drive as a primary drive i.e. loading windows.

 

What I was wondering is it possible to run CCleaner on a 2nd hardrive (not the primary windows drive)?

I know that there are options with CCleaner to clean files on the 2nd hardrive - but I can't see anything in terms of the registry.

My assumption is that the registry is only visible when CCleaner is active on the drive from which the OS is loaded - but I though I would ask in case it help to fix the problem.

 

Sorry for the wordy post - just trying to cover everything.

 

Thanks

 

Neil

[Augeas]

You can't run CC registry clean on a non-system registry. I doubt whether CC would help in your case, as the registry 'clean' just fixes entries that have invalid or obsolete addresses, by the simple process of removing the registry entry.

[JDPower]

Just to cover the obvious - have you tried reformatting and reinstalling Windows?

[ngdoherty]

Just to cover the obvious - have you tried reformatting and reinstalling Windows?

 

 

Thank for the replies. Ok I see what you mean by CC not helping in this situation. Machine is Dell - so I don't have the windows CDs and was hoping to retrieve files/programs before reformatting. Disk is not partitioned either. Plan is to try to get it back - so that I can access windows. Then take backup of image and do a full reformat and reinstall .. slow but I guess needed a this stage.

 

Thanks for your help - but I guess answer will be from different forum :-)