Recover registry from a broken server?

If your server is not booting then you may have a corrupt registy hive, if so you can recover it by doing this, just ensure that the D: is your "windows" install.....

This works well when you always login with a temporary profile.

1. Start your computer with the Advanced startup options.
2. Click on Troubleshoot.
3. Click on Advanced options.
4. Click on Command Prompt.
5. D:\
6. dir
7. cd d:\windows\system32
8. mkdir configBak
9. copy config configBak
10. cd config\RegBack
11. copy * ..\*