In order to prepare myself for the worst, I need to know how to restore
my registry for the case where Vista does not boot and I have no system
restore points. However, before the failure happened I exported the full
registry as a reg file. I've read that the boot CD can do a lot of
repairs but I can't find a tutorial explaining how to restore the
registry.


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mel2000

Sorry but I know of no way to do what you want to do. I'm not sure it would
be of much help anyway - there are a a number of reasons Vista won't boot
and Registry corruption would be way down my list.

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"mel2000" wrote in message
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In order to prepare myself for the worst, I need to know how to restore
my registry for the case where Vista does not boot and I have no system
restore points. However, before the failure happened I exported the full
registry as a reg file. I've read that the boot CD can do a lot of
repairs but I can't find a tutorial explaining how to restore the
registry.


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mel2000

Here it is for XP and maybe for Vista also. I could be wrong

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q307545

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"mel2000" wrote in message ...

In order to prepare myself for the worst, I need to know how to restore
my registry for the case where Vista does not boot and I have no system
restore points. However, before the failure happened I exported the full
registry as a reg file. I've read that the boot CD can do a lot of
repairs but I can't find a tutorial explaining how to restore the
registry.


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mel2000

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:15:01 -0500, mel2000
wrote:


In order to prepare myself for the worst, I need to know how to restore
my registry for the case where Vista does not boot and I have no system
restore points. However, before the failure happened I exported the full
registry as a reg file. I've read that the boot CD can do a lot of
repairs but I can't find a tutorial explaining how to restore the
registry.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Thanks for your reply. However, that article describes how to replace
the corrupted registry with that of the registry created during the
original setup installation, not the one I saved just prior to the
system crash.


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mel2000

Hello,
Did you save the registry hives or did you export them?
If you exported them, they need to be imported into the registry rather
than just a file replacement scenario.

You could boot to WinRE and copy back the automatic backed copies however.
By default Windows Vista maintains two copies of the registry however in
the c:\windows\system32\config\
c:\windows\system32\config\regback folder.
System is a newer backup than system.old in that folder for example.
about 12 hours apart, usually only a day old or so.
You can copy those over to the c:\windows\system32\config folder.
Backup the bad copies first just to be safe.
Replace SAM, Security, Software,Components, and System as one unit,
Do not just replace one hive.
If they do not work then try replacing them with sam.old,
security.old.software.old, components.old, and system.old
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Thanks for your reply. However, that article describes how to replace
the corrupted registry with that of the registry created during the
original setup installation, not the one I saved just prior to the
system crash.


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mel2000
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I exported the registry. If I understand correctly, I can just use
regedit from the boot CD to import the reg file? Thanks.


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mel2000

Hello,
If you use the boot cd, you are loading the registry from the boot cd.
If you import when booted from the boot cd, you are importing the registry
into the registry loaded from the boot cd, not the registry from the hard
drive.

Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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I exported the registry. If I understand correctly, I can just use
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mel2000
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Thanks for the clarification alert. Sorry, that I didn't make myself
clear. I meant to import the registry stored on my external drive, into
the regedit app on the C: drive, which was launched by the CD. If that's
possible, that's what I meant.


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