Re: Recovering/repairing Win2k install after m/b & CPU change

Thanks Jim, but I did NOT see anything on that page that I can use.

However I am further along than I was yesterday, though now my original
account is all messed up. I don't have my users anymore, Control Panel
Add/Remove Programs is empty, no mail accts, etc. How can I "restore"
my old system. Am I just screwed now?

I did NOT have a registry backup.
Jim Byrd wrote:
Hi Zilla - You may already be too far down the road, but you may find
something useful here just to suppliment Dave's advice:

http://www.motherboard.windowsreinstall.com/win2k.htm

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Regards, Jim Byrd, MVP, DTS, ASVOP
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"Zilla" <zilla62@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1161091368.276187.195620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I guess I'm f'd if I didn't! Any other recourse to ge my Winnt (orig)
folder back to geting the files I want?
- Mail
- Documents
... besides manually copying these?

Dave Patrick wrote:
%systemroot%\repair\regback

assuming you made them before hand. This is a manual process in Windows
2000

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Zilla" wrote:
| Ok I was able to get into my original WINNT folder, and am now
| following Part 2 of the article above. It talks about the _restore
| files in the System Volume Information. I don't see any _restore*
| files, being Win2k, and not WinXP? Where are the backup files for
Win2k?
|


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