renaming/copying files at dos prompt?

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From: Dale (Dale_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:51:02 -0800

Hello,

I posted a few days ago about my w2k not booing up because my registry hive
is missing or corrupt. I downloaded the floppy disk start-up thing and am
able to get a dos prompt after using the recovery console.

Now, I have no idea how to rename my former registry hive to "old" and to
rename a back-up registry to be the default one. Can anyone tell me how to
do this?

Thanks in advance. 

-- 
Dale

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