Hi folks,
The windows registry in my 200mz win95 pentium is corrupted. Have TR1
backup, but how do I boot to Win to use the software to reinstall? MayDay!

What kind of backup do you have (complete, just data, etc)?

If you have a complete backup what you can do is reinstall Windows and then the backup software and restore everything else from the backup. If it is just data you reinstall all your programs then run the backup software and restore the tape...but most likely you will need to reinstall windows first.

What is the problem with the registry? What specific errors are you getting?


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[This message has been edited by mjc (edited 04-05-2002).]

Wait... Whay drand of tape drive do you have?

If you created an emergency restore disk. ( I hope you did).

Insert the disk in drive A

Insert tape in tape drive.

Power on computer

at A:\> prompt

type restore

Go make a pot of coffee and when your done, you're back in business...

If not do a basic install of the OS

Install the tape software. If you don't have it, please advise as I may save several old versions

Restore from the backup.

If you are restoring, you will need to use device view to view the contents of the device as the catalogs on the hard drive are probably not going to be there...

Hello NZane,

You could restore the backup copy of yor Registry.

A. If your operating system is Windows 98.
1. Boot your PC and [press F8 to] go to your "startup menu" and select "command prompt only".
2. At "C;\>" type "scanreg_/restore" [the_is a space]. This gives
"C:\>scanreg /restore" and will give you the option to restore any of three saved backups of your Registry plus some other system files.

B. If your operating system is Windows 95.
1. Boot your PC and [press F8 to] go to your "startup menu" and select "command prompt only".
2. Change to your Windows directory.
i.e. "C:\>cd C:\windows"
3. Type the following commands pressing enter after each one.
[note that System.da0 and User.da0 contain the number zero]
attrib -h -r -s system.dat
attrib -h -r -s system.da0
copy system.da0 system.dat
attrib -h -r -s user.dat
attrib -h -r -s user.da0
copy user.da0 user.dat
5. Restart your computer.

This procedure restores your registry to it's state when you last successfully started your computer.

If you are able to do this you can avoid the procedure of restoring perfectly good files just to fix the registry.