From: "Gary Britt" 

I have a cmd batch file that runs on bootup everyday and asks me if I want
to back up the registry on Win2K, I select yes once per day and it uses
regback from the win2K resource kit along with the command line version of
PKZip to backup the registry into a revolving set of the latest 14 zipped
backups of the registry.  I also run this quick registry backup cmd batch
file just before or after making any setup changes, etc., as I consider
necessary.

Gary

"Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in
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>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:427712e8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > 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.
>
>
> + create few handy *.cmd scripts that will auto backup the ..\config and
> replace with ..\repair files.
> Should work fine if same files are updated - check the dates and values.
>
> Should be kept on all of the servers.
>
> ---
> M.
>
>

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