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Harri Pesonen

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Jan 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/25/97
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Is there any tool which can rebuild registry from the exported .REG
file? The Win95 REGEDIT does not understand the /c argument, and the
DOS REGEDIT does not have enough memory to build the whole registry.

My registry once corrupted (due to bug in Quantum BigFoot 2550A firmware
version 1.02), and I would like to rebuild it from scratch.

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Harri Pesonen

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Jan 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/25/97
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Eric Gisin

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Jan 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/25/97
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In article <32EA5B...@sci.fi>, fue...@sci.fi says...

> Is there any tool which can rebuild registry from the exported .REG
> file? The Win95 REGEDIT does not understand the /c argument, and the
> DOS REGEDIT does not have enough memory to build the whole registry.
>
> My registry once corrupted (due to bug in Quantum BigFoot 2550A firmware
> version 1.02), and I would like to rebuild it from scratch.

[weird group for this question!]

I found out about real-mode regedit bugs the hard way too.

The recommended way to restore from a REG file is to boot in safe mode,
and use "regedit /l:system.dat /r:user.dat /c backup.reg". I'm not sure
if I had problems with /c.

I don't bother with REG files anymore, I just move my system.da0 file to
a backup directory once a week. I don't bother with user.dat when I have
user profiles.

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Harri Pesonen

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Jan 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/26/97
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Eric Gisin wrote:
> In article <32EA5B...@sci.fi>, fue...@sci.fi says...
> > Is there any tool which can rebuild registry from the exported .REG
> > file? The Win95 REGEDIT does not understand the /c argument, and the
> > DOS REGEDIT does not have enough memory to build the whole registry.
>
> [weird group for this question!]

Because it is impossible to create the registry with the standard Win95 REGEDIT...

> The recommended way to restore from a REG file is to boot in safe mode,
> and use "regedit /l:system.dat /r:user.dat /c backup.reg". I'm not sure
> if I had problems with /c.

But the Win95 REGEDIT does not support /L or /R arguments. It can just import
to the default registry in the WINDOWS directory. Only the DOS REGEDIT
supports /L and /R arguments.

Duane A. Allred

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Jan 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/30/97
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Harri Pesonen <fue...@sci.fi> wrote:

On my Windows 95 OSR2 CD under \OTHER\MISC\ERU there is a backup program.

It has saved my behind many times by backing up a Windows 95 install. It saves
the SYSTEM and USER files as well as .INI files and can restore from DOS in the
event of a total failure..


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>Is there any tool which can rebuild registry from the exported .REG
>file? The Win95 REGEDIT does not understand the /c argument, and the
>DOS REGEDIT does not have enough memory to build the whole registry.

>My registry once corrupted (due to bug in Quantum BigFoot 2550A firmware

>version 1.02), and I would like to rebuild it from scratch.

>--

Harri Pesonen

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Feb 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM2/4/97
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Duane A. Allred wrote:
>
> On my Windows 95 OSR2 CD under \OTHER\MISC\ERU there is a backup program.
>
> It has saved my behind many times by backing up a Windows 95 install. It saves
> the SYSTEM and USER files as well as .INI files and can restore from DOS in the
> event of a total failure..

But if the registry has corrupted before you made any backups, and the Win95 has booted successfully many times
so that the .DA0 backups in the WINDOWS directory are also corrupted?

I am just asking this simple question: Because there is a Win95 tool to export the whole registry, and there is
a DOS tool to create part of the registry (not the whole registry because of memory limitations), what if
Microsoft would give us a Win95 tool which could build the whole registry?

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