re: System Recovery without losing data?
Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
It will be necessary for you to boot the system from a boot diskette or a boot
CD with an image of the boot diskette on it. You can make such a boot diskette (Startup
Diskette) for Windows ME on any working Windows ME system with a diskette drive.
(Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - Startup Disk tab. Should work from Safe Mode.)
Such a diskette can then be used to make a bootable CD with the diskettes image
as it boot image on most systems with a CD-RW and suitable software for making CD's.
Once you have been able to boot with the Windows ME Startup diskette (or image
from a bootable CD), then at the DOS A:\ prompt, you can enter: SCANREG /restore
command and parameter to start the scan registry program in DOS. This will bring
up a scrollable list of the 10 last Registry backups taken. One is made the first
time you boot the system each day. Select the most recent "Started" entry (by date)
and use it to Restore your system Registry and startup files. Then rebooting the
system should work, unless other critical parts of Windows ME are damaged or missing.
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