>-----Original Message-----
>"Bill Hilton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
in
>news:00a301c3cf55$f2adebc0$(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> Hello, and thank you for any help. Because of a power
>> failure (I suspect, anyway) my Windows 2000pro would
not
>> boot up due to a corrupted file: system32
>> \config\software. Thanks to the advice elsewhere in
this
>> forum, I was able to rename the file, then copy a
>> replacement out of the repair directory. I booted up,
but
>> of course, everything is "gone." I didn't realize that
it
>> would affect the My Documents folder also. I wanted to
>> rename the file from the repair directory then rename
the
>> corrupt file back to the original, then run Norton
while
>> windows was up. But I cannot rename it even after
>> installing Service Pack 4. So, can anyone offer a
>> suggestion as to how to get back to where I was before
the
>> power failure? Or, where can I find all of my data?
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>
>It is unlikely you can repair your registry. As for your
data it is
>still in the same directories as it was before. You will
just need to
>reinstall the associated application to open the data
files. The
>software hive is what contains all the info on how to run
each
>application.
>
>Leonard Severt
>
>Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
>
>--
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no
>rights.
>.
>Thank you. But I still am wondering about the data to
this extent: all of my previous sent email and received
email and my address book in Outlook Express are "gone."
Thank you for your help. I appreciate it. My first
computer had a 20 mb hard drive shipped separately in the
box. But as the years went by, and I got busier and the
OS got better, I didn't have to know as much to make
things work. Now I am knowledgeable enough to be
dangerous. Thanks again.
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