Hi Alex,
Your "100 dial-up connections" are stored in a file (or files depending on how you
set them up) named rasphone.pbk. If the "100 dial-up connections" were created while
logged in as the built-in Administrator, and you choose to share them with All Users,
look in this folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk. Else, look in C:\Documents and
Settings\%UserNameWhoCreatedThePhonebook%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk folder.
Although written for Windows XP, the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
explains about the rasphone.pbk file:
KB284269 - HOW TO: Save and Restore Dial-up Connections in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=284269
Hopefully you have a backup of this file.
If you do not have a backup and your file system is FAT32, it is easy enough to
retrieve the file(s). Just boot using a Win98 startup disk, navigate to the
folder(s) mentioned in KB284269, and copy the rasphone.pbk file(s).
If your file system is NTFS and, prior to it failing, you used one of the Security
tools such as Local Security Settings (secpol.msc) to enable the policy named
"Recovery Console: Allow floppy copy and access to all drives and all folders", you
can use the SET command in the Recovery Console, then navigate to the folder(s)
mentioned in KB284269 and copy the rasphone.pbk file(s). For more information, see
the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:
KB240831 - HOW TO: Copy Files from Recovery Console to Removable Media
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=240831
KB235364 - Description of the SET Command in Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=235364
If your file system is NTFS and you did not previously enabled the SET command you
could slave the computer's hard disk to another computer, perform a parallel
installation of Windows 2000 (see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 266465), or use
3rd-party Data Recovery Tool.
--
Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: "Alex McRoberts" <alex.mcroberts AT honeywell DOT com>
: Wrote in message : Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 03:37 AM
: I have over 100 dial-up connections on a failed
: installation of Win 2000. How can I retrieve this
: information and restore it to the new installation on a
: new hard disk?
