Solved Windows won't boot after changing SecureBoot registry key

eternityg

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Hello.
So I misunderstood purpose of SecureBoot registry key and changed it`s value from "1" to "0"

As I found on google it's used for something else:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Name: SecureBoot
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0x1 Startup Key stored on local hard drive
Value: 0x2 password Startup Key
Value: 0x3 Startup Key stored on floppy disk

As a result my Windows 8.1 won't boot anymore. It shows booting logo and then restarts and runs Automatic recovery which won't diagnose anything.

I guess I messed up something with so called Syskey.
Safe mode won't start either. I tried to open up recovery command promt, but when I enter password, it says password is wrong, although I'm sure it's correct. I managed to open command prompt from installation usb drive, launched regedit and located Secureboot key, but after every reboot it's value is already set to "1".
Can't use Windows Refresh option, because there is only 5gb left of 32gb SSD. (It's Tablet PC)

Any other suggestions how to fix my problem? Really don't wan't to do reinstall. Don't have any backups either.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
For a big suprise I found few days old automatic registry backup located at

C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack So I just copied files SAM, SECURITY, SYSTEM to C:\Windows\System32\config and luckily Windows started up :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
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