ASR Backup for Registry for XP Pro? Just a Floppy Please!

[W. Watson]

I'd like to save my registry in the event I screw it up when I change it. The ASR
facility supposedly will do this, but it seems like it wants to save everything in
sight. I've tinkered with the file selection options, but it seems to want to do at
least some minimal set of file back ups. Can't I just cut to the chase and produce a
floppy?
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)

"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

I'd like to save my registry in the event I screw it up when I change
it. The ASR facility supposedly will do this, but it seems like it
wants to save everything in sight. I've tinkered with the file
selection options, but it seems to want to do at least some minimal
set of file back ups. Can't I just cut to the chase and produce a
floppy?

Forget the floppy, you will not be able to backup an XP registry this way.
Take a look at the following website for a free registry backup utility that
is highly recommended.

ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

 

[W. Watson]

Forget the floppy, you will not be able to backup an XP registry this
way. Take a look at the following website for a free registry backup
utility that is highly recommended.

ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

What happened to the concept of a floppy ERD? What if I somehow mishandle my system
and need to recover because I can't boot up? Isn't there some bootable floppy for
this purpose?

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)

"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Haggis]

they call it the bootable XP CD these days :>

What happened to the concept of a floppy ERD? What if I somehow mishandle
my system and need to recover because I can't boot up? Isn't there some
bootable floppy for this purpose?

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now
sapiens)

"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[W. Watson]

Is ASR capable of producing it?

they call it the bootable XP CD these days :>

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)

"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

What happened to the concept of a floppy ERD? What if I somehow
mishandle my system and need to recover because I can't boot up?
Isn't there some bootable floppy for this purpose?

You can use the ASR Wizard to create a recovery floppy, but this floppy will
only contain the hard-disk configuration information such as disk
signatures, the partition table, and volume data. It doesn't contain any
user information. If you run the ASR restore operation later from the XP
installation CD, this will allow you to use the floppy and access the back
up files on the hard drive or other media that were created by the ASR
Wizard.

See this link for more detailed information.

How to Set up and Use Automated System Recovery in Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/asr.mspx

 

[Alex Nichol]

What happened to the concept of a floppy ERD? What if I somehow mishandle my system
and need to recover because I can't boot up? Isn't there some bootable floppy for
this purpose?

The XP CD itself serves that purpose, and can be booted to take the
immediate R - recovery - option as well as Setup. See the topic
"Recovery Console Commands" in Help and Support.
See http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;307545 for 'in extremis'
damage to registry, but before that attempt a boot to the F8 Menu and
Safe Mode - Command Prompt
where give
C:\Windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
to launch System Restore