From: "Ronnie T. Mungo, Boy Genius" 

No access to nightly backup. At secure site. Can't get to it- today,
tomorrow, weekend we're closed. Military guys have special drills, my guys
are all out.I was just here because I forgot my PDA and came back for it
and decided to do a few things while I was back.  I'm trying to run an
install of Win2k on a second drive, and then to delete that NTUSER.DAT from
that install of Win2K. I have no other back up. This desktop backup I have
is just a sheer luck thing.


"geo"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:3dca9ff3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > Maybe Geo has some better advice.
>
> login as admin, and using the backup software restore just the profile
> directory tree from the backup you made before trying to install some new
> software..
>
> short of that, login as admin, delete the profile (maybe try to save your
> outlook mail store or something like that first), login as the user and
the
> system will create a new profile. All your user specific settings are lost
> which is why people run nightly backups but most software should be saving
> registeration information in the system hive not the user hive so I don't
> know how much of a problem this would be.
>
> Geo. 
>
>

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