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jjarrin 07-17-2002 12:42 AM
Restoring the registry from DOS??
 
Recently I tried boosting my cable/dsl performance with registry entries from speedguide.net. Before I did this however I exported my registry to a file on my desktop in Windows 2K.
Luck will have it that the registry entries corrupted my system giving me ntoskrnl.exe errors and stop errors.
I have tried to boot to dos to run scanreg /restore but it says that it does not recognize the command. I have also tried F8 for last known configuration and that is corrupt also. I tried using the win 2k cd and do a repair but it will not let me login into my documents and settings folder without a password that is different than the administrator password.
I know that a good export of my registry exists on my desktop. The only question is how do I get to it to recover my registry and once I get to it what do i use. Like a fool I never made an ERD or a good backup so any help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you

JJ

Bear 07-17-2002 08:47 AM
Re: Restoring the registry from DOS??
 
Tried scanreg /fix  ?
and did you have space betwix  scanreg and /restore ?

jinx 07-17-2002 02:27 PM
Re: Restoring the registry from DOS??
 
JJ,
Not sure I completely understand the problem, but can you get to the 'run command' ( start/run ) then type in :
scanregw /fix
If not and you can get a DOS C prompt, type in:
scanreg /restore
and see if you are presented with  RBcab000 ( XXX ) with dates, the highest number cab will be the last one.
Or maybe you can do a search/find for :
rb000.cab.
They will be found in directory c:\windows\sysbckup. browse to that directory. See how many total copies of rb00*.cab files there are. The RB is registry backup and should contain 4-5 backups with dates, if not the highest number is the latest.
From there you should be able to restore it.

Uranium-235 07-17-2002 05:16 PM
Re: Restoring the registry from DOS??
 
I'm not sure if the w2k regedit works console in the same way as the 98 regedit in the dos...but...


Code:
Imports and exports registry files to and from the registry.

REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] filename1
REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] /C filename2
REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] /E filename3 [regpath1]
REGEDIT [/L:system] [/R:user] /D regpath2

  /L:system       Specifies the location of the SYSTEM.DAT file.
  /R:user         Specifies the location of the USER.DAT file.
  filename1       Specifies the file(s) to import into the registry.
  /C filename2    Specifies the file to create the registry from.
  /E filename3    Specifies the file to export the registry to.
  regpath1        Specifies the starting registry key to export from.
                  (Defaults to exporting the entire registry).
  /D regpath2     Specifies the registry key to delete.

jjarrin 07-17-2002 05:49 PM
Re: Restoring the registry from DOS??
 
???
It seems scanreg does not come with Win2k only 98 and ME.
However, I am able to boot into safe mode which allows me to see the exported registry file I created before this problem. I just cannot re-import the file while in win2k because it says some of the keys are in use. (even in safe mode)
That's why I was hoping for a dos alternative.
I have also done a search for the user and sytem.dat files but I am still new to Win2k and seems that they don't exist. Only files like NTuser.dat and System with no extension.
I thought that maybe if I could rename those and recover the backups I might have a chance.

jinx 07-17-2002 07:58 PM
Re: Restoring the registry from DOS??
 
JJ,
You are 100 percent correct, win 2k is nothing like the other ver's on restoring the registry, I don't have win 2k, maybe someone with that experience will post some help, meanwhile , if you haven't already read this, it may help some:
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Backing Up and Securing the Registry
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Mastering the Recovery Console

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edit, and restore the registry in Windows 2000?

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