Can system.sav etc. be removed?

[Rob]

Hi,

I'm a little bit short on disk space for my XPe image.
I noticed that in \windows\system32\config there are
file system.sav, config.sav etc. which are the system
hives used by FBA.

Once FBA has been run, can these .sav files be removed
without causing future problems? It would give me a
valuable 2 Mbyte extra diskspace ;-)

Rob

 

[KM]

Rob,

IIRC, the sav files are just copies of the hive files as they looked at the end of the text-mode stage in Setup.
Setup has two stages: text mode and graphics mode. The hive is copied to a .sav file after the text-mode stage of setup to protect
it from errors that might occur if the graphics-mode stage of setup fails. If setup fails during the graphics-mode stage, only the
graphics-mode stage is repeated when the computer is restarted; the .sav file is used to restore the hive data

I guess by the end of the FBA process it shoudl be safe to delete the save files.