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triad808
Hello out there 
Hopefully there are more than a few users out there who
are familiar with MS XP and disaster recovery to help me
out here.
This is what happened... My home system had a MS XPSP1
Gold installation and I used it for audio editing and
production. Well after running a windows update I
rebooted the system only to find that it required me to
run a dynamic update. This happened several times (at
least 4) and at approx.45+min per iteration that becomes a
major irritant. So I figured rather than run the dynamic
update I would affect the necessary changes from Recovery
Console and save myself another 45min to an hour of
downtime. Since there were two other Windows
installations on the system Windows needed to specify
which one to boot from, so what I did was use BOOTCFG and
set the 'right' one as the default and that should have
handled the problem ...however I made the lethal mistake
of running FIXBOOT on the Hard Drive which effectively
stripped the entire HD of all of its file descriptors.
I knew my error upon reboot and promptly shutdown the
system and removed the hard drive.
I have done nothing to the drive since and I do have a
complete backup of the registry on another drive. I have
heard that the system can be restored using this as a
guide... Does anyone know if this is true?
Please contact me if you do... my email is (spelled out to
avoid unscrupulous spam scripts that scan for such
things :/) triad808 at>hotmaildotcom
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated of course
and maybe I could help you out of a quandry on something
else
Thanx.
Triad
Hopefully there are more than a few users out there who
are familiar with MS XP and disaster recovery to help me
out here.
This is what happened... My home system had a MS XPSP1
Gold installation and I used it for audio editing and
production. Well after running a windows update I
rebooted the system only to find that it required me to
run a dynamic update. This happened several times (at
least 4) and at approx.45+min per iteration that becomes a
major irritant. So I figured rather than run the dynamic
update I would affect the necessary changes from Recovery
Console and save myself another 45min to an hour of
downtime. Since there were two other Windows
installations on the system Windows needed to specify
which one to boot from, so what I did was use BOOTCFG and
set the 'right' one as the default and that should have
handled the problem ...however I made the lethal mistake
of running FIXBOOT on the Hard Drive which effectively
stripped the entire HD of all of its file descriptors.
I knew my error upon reboot and promptly shutdown the
system and removed the hard drive.
I have done nothing to the drive since and I do have a
complete backup of the registry on another drive. I have
heard that the system can be restored using this as a
guide... Does anyone know if this is true?
Please contact me if you do... my email is (spelled out to
avoid unscrupulous spam scripts that scan for such
things :/) triad808 at>hotmaildotcom
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated of course
and maybe I could help you out of a quandry on something
else
Thanx.
Triad