Vista - Can't Delete Registry Key

Hi Jack,

Can you post a screen shot of your registry, showing the exact key that you are trying to delete?

I could not paste the regedit screen into this window. It is in the attachment. I am trying to delete the first key below IDE. Again, thanks to all who have tried to help!

Hi Jack,

After uninstalling the drive in device manager, disconnect the interface cable and power supply cable from the drive in question (do this with your machine switched off and disconnected from the mains).
Having done that, I don't see why my method wouldn't work, other than you might need to be using a command prompt with administrative credentials: Elevated Command Prompt
As mentioned in my earlier post, highlight the key that you want to delete and select 'Copy Key Name'. Remember to change 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' to 'HKLM'.
Before you delete this key, check to make sure that it is the one that you need to delete and not one of the others.

Hi Dwarf,

Still getting an error, screen shot attached. Did I miss something??????

Thanks,

Jack

Hi Jack,

Have you tried the same method, this time adding the '/f' switch as shown in my earlier example? That switch forces the command to be carried out without further prompts.

/f yielded the same unsuccesful result!

Try delete these keys remotly see:Load a hive into the registry: Core Services

Boot DVD Vista>>Choose language>>Repair Computer>>Command Prompt



Hives you can see now only comes from your DVD not from hard disk.Click on HKLM hive or HKU hive...

and will be active option load hive



Go to C:\Windows\System32\config to load SYSTEM

,load this hive as example REM_SYSTEM to HKLM hive

so your key you can see locally as HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control...
will be see remotly as HKLM\REM_SYSTEM\ControlSet00X\Control...

edit key for all X (yo can have few,CurrentControlSet normally iseeing as one of ControlSet00X,mostly for X=1 but not always,edit keys for all ControlSet00X which you have

Thanks Flavius. I will give the solution a try. I like to know what I am doing before I try it and I have never seen the term "hive" before. I am not sure what a "hive" is but will give it a try and let you know.

Jack

Flavius,

I tried to procedure you outlined. When I booted from the Vista DVD, I could not see the drive I wanted to remove. When I went back and booted from the hard drive, it appeared again.

Jack

Probably due to my bit mistake in path in registry.I was hurry when I wrote my post 17-from this my mistake.I've just corrected my post 17 + additional figure:



When you load SYSTEM file (from C: )under HKLM as name REM_SYSTEM
of course hive which is seeing locally as a HKLM\SYSTEM remotly will be seeing of course as a HKLM\REM_SYSTEM

so your wanted key will be seieing as

HKLM\REM_SYSTEM\ControlSet00X\Enum\IDE...

if you want to navigate HKLM\REM_SYSTEM\Select which show you exactly which subkey is loaded by the system as a CurrentControlSet,for example if you have phrase Default set to 1 this means ControlSet001 is loaded as a CurrentControlSet if Default set to 2 ->ControlSet002 is loaded as a CurrentControlSet and so later,but of course I suggest do it for all ControlSet00X