6. When you??™re done, pop out your Vista setup disc and restart your PC.
With any luck, Windows should start normally. If it doesn??™t, either your
most recent backup is defective, or the problem lies elsewhere. If you suspect
that an older backup may work where the newer one failed, add the .OLD
filename extension to each filename in step 5 above, like this:
REG RESTORE HKLM\COMPONENTS C:\Backups\COMPONENTS.OLD
If Windows still won??™t start at this point, try reinstalling Windows (see
Chapter 1).
Now, there??™s a chance that the REG.exe tool won??™t work, which might happen
if your Registry is sufficiently corrupted or if the REG.exe file itself is damaged.
In this case, try replacing the active hive files with your backups, like this:
1. Open the Command Prompt as instructed in steps 1??“4 above.
2. Type these commands to copy the files:
copy C:\Backups\COMPONENTS C:\Windows\System32\Config
copy C:\Backups\SAM C:\Windows\System32\Config
copy C:\Backups\SECURITY C:\Windows\System32\Config
copy C:\Backups\SOFTWARE C:\Windows\System32\Config
copy C:\Backups\SYSTEM C:\Windows\System32\Config
copy C:\Backups\NTUSER.DAT C:\Users\your_user_folder
where your_user_folder (on the last line) is the name of your user
folder, which may or may not be the same as your user name. If you
don??™t know the folder name, type dir c:\users to list all the user folders
on your PC. If your user folder name has spaces in it, add quotation
marks, like this:
copy C:\Backups\NTUSER.
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