From: Tim Boyer 

On Tue, 3 May 2005 02:00:50 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>Can you access the drive and copy the most recent backup of the registry
>hive back onto the disk.  The files in \winnt\system32\config directory
>named software, default, sam, system, hardware, and system.alt combined with
>ntuser.dat and usrclass.dat make your registry.  ntuser.dat is found in the
>users directory (i.e., \documents and settings\administrator for the
>administrator and Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
>Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows for the usrclass.dat file used
>by the administrator).
>
>If your hard drive is going bad, it might be better not to copy over the top
>of the files on the hard drive.  I would rename the \winnt\system32\config
>directory to something else and then create a new config directory to put
>the registry files into.  Hopefully the restored files will hit good
>sectors.
>
>Then reboot and pray.
>
>Gary

Yup.  And have good backups.

  It's really only some programs I'd have lost - all of the
data's safe, so it's more of a pain than a disaster.

Thanks much...

-- tim --


>
>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>news:aabd71hmkt01mbbh1up9bfedcntgoillaa{at}4ax.com...
>> Dang.  I thought I posted this message already from work, where, of
>> course, all of the information is.  So this is from memory.
>>
>> I'm running 2000 Pro, and just got a BSOD this morning.  Something
>> about registry error, and \system32\SOFTWARE being invalid.  (Yeah, I
>> know, nice and vague.  But I really _did_ write it down...)
>>
>> Anyway, can't boot to safe mode, Windows Repair was as effective as
>> ever (can't find a Windows partition).  Anyone got a favorite
>> commercial repair tool?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tim Boyer
>> tim{at}denmantire.com
>

--
Tim Boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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