MSFT Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 307545

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Matt C

Trying to perform the instructions in this Article
Trying to recover what we think is a corrupted registry
on XP home addition (HP Pavilion PC).

Performing Instruction "copy c:\windows\repair\system
c:\windows\system32\config\system" does not work as their
is no c:\windows\repair\system directory. What exists is
a c:\windows\repair\system.bak file.

Are these instructions correct? when checking a computer
from work that is working properly, there is no
c:\windows\repair\system directory either, only the
system.bak.

Have already spoke with HP support who led me to this
article. They have never come across the \system
directory not existing under \windows\repair.

Any help is appreciated.
 
Matt,

The article is correct. I have never seen any *.bak in any of my
workstations %systemroot%repair directory before. But
just follow the instructions adding .bak to the command line command. I have
given a example below fo rstep 5 of the KB
article

md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default

copy c:\windows\repair\system.bak c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software.bak c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam.bak c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security.bak c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default.bak c:\windows\system32\config\default
 
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