Does anyone produce a DOS system restore program?

[Mike Matheny]

If you can't boot WinXP, even in safe mode, then system restore is useless.
I hope MS is working on this for Longhorn. An utility to restore from
restore points at a command prompt would be worth it's weight in gold!

 

[Guest]

They don't want you too, it would be too easy. Just like
the ability to back-up, it's got to be hard and you have
to spend more money.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Mike

There is a small program that can backup the Registry and then restore that from 'DOS' - using FAT:

Erunt

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

Please read/download the accompanying documentation.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

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HOW TO Start the System Restore Tool from a Command Prompt in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449

Bruce Chambers

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[Mike Matheny]

Yeah, but that's not the same as a system restore. It really should be
pretty easy to do, just figure out the compression scheme and then figure
out how to read the log files.

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Mike Matheny

Hi Mike

There is a small program that can backup the Registry and then restore that
from 'DOS' - using FAT:

Erunt

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

Please read/download the accompanying documentation.

 

[Alex Nichol]

If you can't boot WinXP, even in safe mode, then system restore is useless.
I hope MS is working on this for Longhorn. An utility to restore from
restore points at a command prompt would be worth it's weight in gold!

If you boot with F8 to the menu and take Safe Mode - Command Prompt
(which is XP using cmd.exe as the shell) you can run the line
C:\Windows\system32\restore\rstruui.exe
which will load the regular System restore and may allow you to get back
- it depends on *why* a more normal boot is not possible.

Or make a registry backup using ERUNT from
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt
and put the backup folder (ERDNT) it makes *inside* the windows folder.
You can then, from a recovery console boot of the CD, copy files that
have no extension from there back into windows\system\config to restore
that version of the registry

 

[Mike Matheny]

Superb! I searched for command prompt and system restore, and could not find
a thing! This is great info!

 

[sqr]

That is what the recovery console is for.

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Superb! I searched for command prompt and system restore, and could not find
a thing! This is great info!