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[Mark V]

You can run Programs|Accessories|System Tools|Backup, then

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Thanks Dave! Saved me having to plagiarize one of your earlier
posts. <VBG>

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

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| Thanks, it is very valuable.
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[Dave Patrick]

LOL, no problem.

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| Thanks Dave! Saved me having to plagiarize one of your earlier
| posts. <VBG>
|
|

 

[ALEXB]

The trouble, Dave, and it seems there is always a trouble, that my
"supermodern" computer does not have an A: floppy anymore. Dell thought I
wouldn't need it, I agreed. Shall I purchase a floppy drive and insert it in
the bay or there is another way around? For a moment I considered mapping my
external HDD to A: but it did not work, obviously.

Thanks.

You can run Programs|Accessories|System Tools|Backup, then choose ERD, then
if you check the box for "Also backup....", then the reg will also be backed
up to
%windir%\repair\RegBack
leaving the
%windir%\repair\
directory files intact as original installation.

Then archive the files in
%windir%\repair\RegBack
These would, in effect, be registry restore points.

You can replace registry hives from within the recovery console by copying
the files from your archive to;
%windir%\system32\config

To start the Recovery Console, start the computer from the Windows 2000
Setup CD or the Windows 2000 Setup floppy disks. If you do not have Setup
floppy disks and your computer cannot start from the Windows 2000 Setup CD,
use another Windows 2000-based computer to create the Setup floppy disks. At
the "Welcome to Setup" screen. Press F10 or R to repair a Windows 2000
installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The Recovery
Console then prompts you for the administrator password. If you do not have
the correct password, Recovery Console does not allow access to the
computer. If an incorrect password is entered three times, the Recovery
Console quits and restarts the computer. Note If the registry is corrupted
or missing or no valid installations are found, the Recovery Console starts
in the root of the startup volume without requiring a password. You cannot
access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk, fixboot,
and fixmbr for limited disk repairs. Once the password has been validated,
you have full access to the Recovery Console, but limited access to the hard
disk. You can only access the following folders on your computer: drive
root, %systemroot% or %windir%

In most cases replacing the software and or system hive will do it depending
on where the damage is.


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| BTW, I want to take you to task with it. I do not quite understand how one
| can save registry ONLY with the system backup utility which ntbackup.exe
is?
| I checked it once more and found no way to achieve this.
|
| Just a few days ago I tried to do a system backup on my Win2K and pointed
it
| to an external HDD with 120G. I have very little stuff on my computer. All
I
| do is algorithm and computation intensive. The results are stored in a few
| tables. The system backup worked for a while and then stopped giving me an
| error message that there was not enough memory in the storage. When I
| checked, the file saved had only 6.5G. It is 100% of the total stuff on my
| drive C:. Why did it give me an error message?
|
| At the same time I do not want saving the entire system. I want to save
| registry only. Is there a way to do it?
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|

 

[Dave Patrick]

The floppy write would fail but the registry backups still should be written
to;
%windir%\repair\RegBack

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| The trouble, Dave, and it seems there is always a trouble, that my
| "supermodern" computer does not have an A: floppy anymore. Dell thought I
| wouldn't need it, I agreed. Shall I purchase a floppy drive and insert it
in
| the bay or there is another way around? For a moment I considered mapping
my
| external HDD to A: but it did not work, obviously.
|
| Thanks.

 

[ALEXB]

The floppy write would fail but the registry backups still should be written
to;
%windir%\repair\RegBack

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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If this is the MICROSOFT WAY, let it be this way.

Thanks, I take warning signs too literally, it seems.