HowTo: Fix Corrupted Windows Registry from Ubuntu partition

[frank.a.silva]

Thanks!! This solution still works. I had to fix a roommate's XP work computer and followed the instructions with a few minor adjustments. Here are my notes:

• Download latest desktop version of Ubuntu ISO
• Create bootable CD or USB thumb drive
  
  • UNetbootin is a good utility for creating bootable USB drives for many different Operating Systems and Utilities)
  • http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
  
  
• When booting from Ubuntu, steps 1, 2, and 3 are pretty much already done
  
  • NTFS-3G is already installed
  • NTFSProgs is now included in NTFS-3G and doesn't need to be installed
  • NTFS filesysystem is generally already mounted
  
  
• For step 4, it's probably best to copy a backup of the files to another USB drive or a network drive
• before running the ntfsfix command you have to unmount the Windows drive
• After the first reboot, it went automatically into windows without doing any system checks. However, after rebooting it did do a file system consistency check. I did a 3rd reboot just to make sure everything worked.

Regards,

Frank

[chitreddysandeep]

Thank u Kerrnopanic. Ur solution worked fine to me. For layman Identifying devicename of windows is a little troublesome. My answer to them is use GParted Partition editor.It will list all partitions. There is an issue during the NTFS consistency check.

command: ntfsfix /dev/sda1
Issue: Refusing to operate on read-write mounted device /dev/sda1.

Solution: Try unmounting the drive first - running this program on a mounted drive apparently doesn't work -
sudo umount /dev/sda1
ntfsfix /dev/sda1

PS: sda1 is where my windows installed, it might vary for others.