 Vista Restore Files, Anyway to Restore SAM, DEFAULT etc. as in XP fron RPs |
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 Mar 11 2008, 04:20 PM
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During an up date from MS there was a Network failure It does not bott up and goes to REcovery where it fails Have used DVD and tried and failed to restore to any of the Restore Points that have been selected Can one manually go in as in XP and move SAM; DEFAULT; SYSTEM and SOFTWARE from a restore Point in System Volume Information? I am not able to locate these files and suspect they do not exist thanks |
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Mar 11 2008, 07:07 PM
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While I haven't tried this with Vista, it should be possible to do it the same way as you did it with XP. System Volume Information is still the storehouse for the restore points, and the registry hives are still located where they were in XP.
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Mar 12 2008, 01:46 AM
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thanks for the reply
unfortunately the start up repair does not work the problem is I cannot locate the snapshots and hence the files |
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Mar 12 2008, 05:46 PM
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Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Moderator Posts: 14,665 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
How are you attempting to locate the snapshots? When in Windows you generally won't be able to access the System Volume Information folders - and even if you do, it won't help since you can't replace the hives while they're in use.
I use a copy of Windows PE 2.0 to do this at work, but I suspect that you can use the BartPE or the Ultimate Boot CD to do the same thing (or maybe even a copy of a Live Linux distro). -------------------- - John
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