Restoring System State Data

[Guest]

Greetings

Does anyone know if it is possible to restore the system state data from
backup, so that the computer will function as berfore the restore? I have a
PC that failed to boot, stating that critical system files were missing.
After fiddling around with it for a while I decided that now was a good time
to start fresh with the OS. I reinstalled the OS and everything was working
correctly. I then went to another drive and retrieved a backup that I had
been making weekly, it included the system state data. I restored the data,
overwriting the existing files and then when I rebooted it blue screened with
an error. I went through this senerio twice and then decided that the problem
must be that I am overwriting some other crictal files. What I am after is
restoring the computer to its original state before the crash. All of the
Programs are there, it's just that the registry is not pointing to them. When
I reinstalled the OS, I chose to just have it delete the windows folder. All
other folders were left intact. Also, I had made my profile private on the
original OS and now I can not access it. I am hoping that by restoring the
system state that I can again access my original profile.

 

[Bert Kinney]

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Greetings

Does anyone know if it is possible to restore the system
state data from backup, so that the computer will
function as berfore the restore?

No, as you have found out, that will not work.

< I have a PC that failed

to boot, stating that critical system files were missing.
After fiddling around with it for a while I decided that
now was a good time to start fresh with the OS. I
reinstalled the OS and everything was working correctly.
I then went to another drive and retrieved a backup that
I had been making weekly, it included the system state
data. I restored the data, overwriting the existing files
and then when I rebooted it blue screened with an error.
I went through this senerio twice and then decided that
the problem must be that I am overwriting some other
crictal files. What I am after is restoring the computer
to its original state before the crash. All of the
Programs are there, it's just that the registry is not
pointing to them. When I reinstalled the OS, I chose to
just have it delete the windows folder. All other folders
were left intact. Also, I had made my profile private on
the original OS and now I can not access it. I am hoping
that by restoring the system state that I can again
access my original profile.

I would suggest starting over with a clean install of XP. After that, you may want to ask
first, before making such changes to the system.