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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (743)	5/21/1998 9:00:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Yes, my story of a couple of months ago, almost exactly; though I did manage to preserve the hard drive and the installed software. The registry was gonzo, and there was nothing for it but to reinstall the whole thing. The root of the problem (I think, you never really know) was in the registry corruption I lost the disk configuration. In my naivete, when I first installed NT I fiddled with disk partitions and the NT partition ended up on drive G, which is physically the second partition on the "C" drive, by which I mean the primary disk on the primary IDE controller. Now, as it happens, my partition configuration has changed so the letter "G" no longer gets assigned to the system root partition in the normal course of disk-letter assignment, so to preserve the installed software, I had to reassign the drive letter with Disk Manager. Well, when the registry went south the disk configuration went with it. I DID have an emergency repair disk, but for some reason it never worked out right. I think it was probably made with an older disk configuration (sigh -- do as I say, not as I do). Anyhow, like you, there was nothing for it but to reinstall NT from scratch. I'm STILL nowhere near back to my preferred configuration. Now here's what I do. I keep a SECOND NT on the root partition of the C drive (a FAT partition). I can now boot that NT and save all the registry hives of the primary NT on the G partition. That's mostly what I use it for. Then if the primary NT crashes, I can boot the "FAT" nt and use it to restore the primary's hives. This DOES cause an allergic reaction, which explains the hives <G>. Incidentally, I was able to restore a good deal of my application software configuration by loading the old hkey_local_machine\software key into regedit32, exporting it as a text registry backup, then later importing it into the registry of the new NT after it was built. This worked, more or less, though I get an occasional glitch. But, guess what. I'm now several weeks past my last registry backup. Soon, now ... Regards, Spots PS. The thing that triggered all this was trying to install full duplex sound drivers for a sound blaster. In one sense I caused it all myself because I didn't fully understand the procedure. Now I do, but the tuition was pricey<GG>.