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Offline Avan

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Can't boot up Windows because you're getting a BlueScreenofDeath?
Same for safe mode?
Only hope seems to be recovery mode but it's giving you errors and your only hope seems to be a clean install?
And this is a laptop where you can't simply pop out the hard drive to back everything up?

Well you're in luck. All you need are a large external HDD (hard drive) (large enough to hold all your files) and an admin account's password.

Step 1; boot up the computer normally, let it crash (blue-screen) and auto-reboot
Step 2; it should go into 'start-up repair' automatically
Step 3; cancel the 'start-up repair' utility and continue till you see a pair of blue links, the lower of which says 'advanced recovery options'; click it
Step 4; you will need an admin password here; select an admin account and enter the password
Step 5; select 'command prompt' and then plug in your external hard drive
Step 6; type in 'regedit' into the command prompt window
Step 7; in the regedit window, go to File->Export
Step 8; at the bottom, there should be a drop down list with an option 'all files' (its right below the text field where you specify the save-name of the registry dump)
Step 9; you've now got a passable set of explorer's functions! (don't bother trying to start up the real explorer, as it won't be able to access System32.dll in recovery mode) - you can now copy+paste files/folders from your bricked computer onto the external hard drive! (One file/folder at a time, I know, but way better than nothing!)
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Re: Tutorial; how to get explorer's functions in Vista/7 recovery mode
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2010, 03:54:42 pm »
I haven't had an HDD falure thankfully, but good stuff to know just in case. Would you mind clarifying the last step some? When you say you have a passable set of Explorer's functions, are you meaning access to a GUI interface (windows), or doing things manually via the command prompt, or something else all together? If this is using something other than a GUI where you can drag and drop or select and copy files, how do you go about doing the copy+pasting? I'm not a total computer noob, but I don't know much about advanced workings and never had to dig that deep into recovery/restoring.
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Re: Tutorial; how to get explorer's functions in Vista/7 recovery mode
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2010, 03:59:07 pm »
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Step 4; you will need an admin password here; select an admin account and enter the password

What exactly do you mean by this?

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Re: Tutorial; how to get explorer's functions in Vista/7 recovery mode
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2010, 12:55:38 am »
@Narei
It's just like the windows explorer gui, just that you need to right-click to open things, and you can only select one thing at a time

@kobuk
It will prompt you for an account with administrator privileges and the password for said account
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