From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"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.

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M.

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