Re: Can Old Restore Points Be Used With New Windows Install?

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Will wrote:
The registry whose copies were made in the system restore point does
contain
references to the installed software. So if you did a fresh install,
and
if you could recover those registry files in the system restore points,
you
would regain the references to the installed software.

If you cannot use the restore points with a new install, it gets mute.

I'll probably inspect into the restore points to see if the registry files
were backed up there in their original form without encrypting or
compression. If so, I might be able to copy them over manually using an
ERD Commander boot disk.

It's starting to look like brain surgery for my computer no matter which
recovery method I use.

--
Will

Reading this (and your succeeding post), I think you're at the point now
where you NEED to do a new install, and just start all over. I don't see
how your going to be able to patch it (even with the contents of that System
Volume Information Folder), and especially given that all your
windows\system folders have mysteriously vanished!

As that old saying goes, "you're swinging at the bell". Maybe it's time
to bite the bullet, and you'll undoubtedly end up saving time this way,
anyways (vs a neverending story of an impossible resurrection, at least from
what I can tell here) Just copy what you can (if at all possible) off of
that drive before doing so.

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"Will" <westes-usc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a massively corrupted Windows XP SP3 installation that may
require
a
new install of Windows. My system restore points are intact in the
system
information folder. After creating a new install of Windows, is it
able
to
restore Windows' system state using those old restore points that were
created with a different install of Windows?

It would be an extremely nice feature to have if not. All of my
installed software on this system is intact. I really just need to
recover
the original registry and system32 subtree.

--
Will


The original registry does NOT contain any references to your installed
software but the corrupted registry does. You are therefore asking for
the impossible.


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