Windows 2000 complains the software hive is
corrupted or unreadable after a normal shutdown and restart. It contains a few weeks worth of software installations and configurations and is 12Mb in size.
How can I repair the software hive file, rather than use the backup which is a clean install and which would mean reloading everything from scratch ? I have already tried importing the hive into a new install which fails due to the same corruption problem which prevents the current install from loading at all. What I am really looking for is some kind of repair facility which will scan and fix the hive file in a similar fashion to “scanreg” in win98. I cannot believe there is no facility to do this as the situation was all too easy to get into and I imagine a lot more users will experience it, sooner or later…