renaming/copying files at dos prompt?

[Guest]

Hello,

I posted a few days ago about my w2k not booing up because my registry hive
is missing or corrupt. I downloaded the floppy disk start-up thing and am
able to get a dos prompt after using the recovery console.

Now, I have no idea how to rename my former registry hive to "old" and to
rename a back-up registry to be the default one. Can anyone tell me how to
do this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Hello,

I posted a few days ago about my w2k not booing up because my
registry hive is missing or corrupt. I downloaded the floppy disk
start-up thing and am able to get a dos prompt after using the
recovery console.

Now, I have no idea how to rename my former registry hive to "old"
and to rename a back-up registry to be the default one. Can anyone
tell me how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Take a look at the info here

http://tinyurl.com/57hj2

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,

I posted a few days ago about my w2k not booing up because my registry hive
is missing or corrupt. I downloaded the floppy disk start-up thing and am
able to get a dos prompt after using the recovery console.

Now, I have no idea how to rename my former registry hive to "old" and to
rename a back-up registry to be the default one. Can anyone tell me how to
do this?

Thanks in advance.

Your post is a little confusing. Did you start your machine in Recovery
Console mode, or did you boot it with a DOS boot disk into DOS?
The two are radically different modes!

If you booted the machine with a DOS boot disk, and if your system
partition is an NTFS partition, then you will not be able to do anything.
You may even not be able to see any files or folders on your system
drive!

If you booted the machine into the Recovery Console then you can
type help to see the commands available to you. To rename
the registry, you would probably do this:
cd \winnt
cd system32
cd config
ren system system.bad
ren system.alt system

Note that you can boot into the Recovery Console with your Win2000
CD. This is much faster than using floppy disks!

 

[Dave Patrick]

I've answered you twice but you just keep creating new threads.

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:
| Hello,
|
| I posted a few days ago about my w2k not booing up because my registry
hive
| is missing or corrupt. I downloaded the floppy disk start-up thing and am
| able to get a dos prompt after using the recovery console.
|
| Now, I have no idea how to rename my former registry hive to "old" and to
| rename a back-up registry to be the default one. Can anyone tell me how
to
| do this?
|
| Thanks in advance.
| --
| Dale