Win2KP Emergency Repair Disk

[William W. Plummer]

From looking at the files on an Emergency Repair Disk it looks like Windows
*must* live in C:\WINNT ! The OS I run started live as a parallel
installation and got put in C:\Win2K4.

So the question is: If I wipe out my original installation in C:\WINNT
because it is bad somehow, reinstall from the Win2K SP4 file from Microsoft,
how do I easily move my user profiles and configuration data back into
C:\WINNT and make all registry entries right?

 

[Abhijeet Nigam [MSFT]]

Hi,
You can get the profile and configuration back
your profile folder is at c:\document and settings where you have folders
with username
and for configuration if you have a backup of the system state of the
previous installation , then you can restore the registry (Configuration)
TO use the same profile
Change the profile path to the c:\document and settings\USername of the
previuos install


Abhijeet Nigam, MCSE,A+,CCNA
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[William W. Plummer]

I didn't quite believe you so I searched my registry for "Win2KP" the
directory where I have my "current" version of Win2K. None found. Good. I
thought some variable would point to a file in %windir%, but there were
none. Then I remembered the Environment Variables. Sure enough there are
several that reference the directory, but they were all pointing to my
original install, WINNT. So that another bug with Windows Install -- it
doesn't update the environment. Sigh.

 

[Abhijeet Nigam [MSFT]]

hi,
You cannot find registry in the directory I mean if you have taken
System state backup using ntbackup
then you restore it back on the new Installation
But make sure that when you had taken a backup that registry was good
There is nothing to do with environment variables over there .




Abhijeet Nigam, MCSE,A+,CCNA
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