jaymax Posted May 28, 2009 Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 Win 2K Prof.Lost my MBR and system disk partition. Had my data backed up before but could not restore automatically.Reinstalled a new WINNT system, a few utilities and manually copied the programs and documents that were backed up. I'd like to restore the system to its original state, if it is possible. What files should I copy from the old (WINNT) operating system so that I can recreate the old system without having to reintalled te original programs.Should I, or can I - Merge or import the old Registry. Simply replace the system file in \WINNT\config\ What about the software, SAM and SECURITY files in there ? How do I treat the *.DAT files in there too?And what about the sub-folders & files in the Documents and Settings folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted May 28, 2009 Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 Welcome to the Windows Forum.Not sure about your situation - did you fix the MBR?if you have a full backup, why not just restore the entire backup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymax Posted May 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 Welcome to the Windows Forum.Not sure about your situation - did you fix the MBR?if you have a full backup, why not just restore the entire backup?MBR is fixed, partition rebuilt, some utilities installed, backup is not full, backup utility is not responding properly, and do not want to overwrite some folders & files either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted May 29, 2009 Report Share Posted May 29, 2009 In that case you may be better off with a System Restore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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