[THIN] Re: OT: nt4.0 crashed, registry corrupt I think
- From: Steve Snyder <steven_snyder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:05:17 -0800 (PST)
Just restoring files in the winnt\system32\config
folder won't work, unless you had the capability to
backup open files. Otherwise, most backup programs
allow you to backup/restore the registry - which does
you no good since you can't boot.
If you ever backedup the registry via RDISK /S there
will be backups of the registry files in
\winnt\repair. If you can access those via FAT, or
NTFSDos or an alternate install, you can copy those
over into the \winnt\system32\config folder and you'll
be good to go, save for losing all registry mods since
your last registry backup. It'll get you running but
you may have to reinstall some programs, or you'll be
able to restore the registry from a backup at that
point.
If you have not made a backup of the registry via
RDISk /S then you last option is to get ahold of a
copy of Windows Server 2003 (aka .NET Server), and
copy the corrupt hive file - in your case SOFTWARE -
over and load it into regedit. When you do it'll tell
you that it's corrupt and ask if you want to reapir it
- which you do. When it's done, unload and then reload
it to verify that the corruption is gone, unload it
again and then copy it back to your server. I run .NET
server on my laptop just for this feature alone and
have used a few times. There's no gurantee that it'll
work flawlessly, but it should at least get you back
to being bootable.
HTH
--- Vince Tan <VinceT@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After 2 straight power failure here in my area for
> two hours each, my NT 4.0 crashed and will no
> longer boot. The machine is an HP LH3000 with a
> NetRaid Controller. The booth drive where the OS is
> located is on the RAID drive. I was able to use
> Winternals to booth up and see the system. Glad to
> see that all my data are intact. The problem is I
> am not able to booth due to registry corruption.
> According to Winternals, my Software hive is
> corrupt. When I try the regedit of Winternal, I can
> not see the software hive. I do have a backup of
> the server but might not be a complete system. If
> I just recover the files from
> systemroot\system32\config\ to the server, will that
> fix my registry problem? How would you attack this
> problem.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Vince
>
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