Re: How to access System Restore on a non-bootable drive?

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Well, it was worth a try.

I do have another thought, it has to do with loading the registry hive
that's on the "problem" disk while in the registry editor of the "good"
disk. Unfortunately, I have to head off to work the nightshift right
now.....if I get a chance at work, I'll write it out for you tonight, and if
not, then I'll write it out tomorrow afternoon when I wake up and am having
my coffee.



Regards,

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Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Badger" <Badger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you Patti. However, as I can't boot the computer into Windows at
all, not even in Safe Mode with Command Prompt, I can't start System
Restore from a Command Prompt. Any attempt to boot in *any* mode gets to
the Welcome screen and then hangs.
Any other thoughts would be most welcome.
Badger

"Patti MacLeod" <pam120@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Badger,

Hook it back up as the boot drive and see if you can run System Restore
from a command prompt:

How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Badger" <Badger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here is the scenario.
OS is Windows XP SP2 on a P4 3.0Ghz machine.

For reasons that seemed valid to him at the time, the owner, (not me)
deleted all references to shgina.dll in his Registry. As a result the
computer would not boot, even into Safe Mode.
He had carefully set a System Restore point before fiddling with the
Registry but now cannot get to it to restore back to the point before he
changed the Registry.
I now have his computer to try to solve the problem for him. I tried to
do a repair install but the computer only got as far as installing
devices and then continually restarted the install from scratch.
I then hooked up another HDD with XP already installed, configuring it
as the Master and reconfigured the original C drive as a slave.
OK, now I can boot the computer and look at the original C drive. All
his settings and data are intact, and he would like to keep them like
that. As a precaution I have copied the entire contents of the old drive
onto a folder in the new one, called (imaginatively) "Stuff from old
drive".
So, the question is, is there any way in which I can invoke System
Restore on the old C drive? At the moment it's just a data drive, not
the OS Boot drive so I can't simply run System Restore on it.
I've Googled this till I'm blue in the face but can't find any apparent
answers.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Badger







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