Win 2K Registry Backup? What's the point?
Having just trashed and rebuilt the Win 2K partition (NTFS) on my test/development laptop it seemed a wise move to back up the entire Registry. The installation was as clean as a whistle with:
Win2K/SP4/IE6/Acroread5.1/Winzip7/WMP9/DirectX8/McAfee7/ZoneAlarmPro and that's it. It was as solid as a rock.
The Registry backup was 14MB for all the components.
So, when I trashed it again, it seemed a simple matter to Import the registry and start again. No luck; error message was "error accessing registry file"!
But I was more cunning and had also backed up the entire partition and it is reloading as I write (Only 2GB) using the Win98SE partition on the same laptop.
But what's the point of backing up the registry, as we are always advised and as we always advise others, if when you need it you can't import it? (Tried in safe mode too.)
Any of my fellow geeks got any similar experiences or ideas on this?
Last edited by fobotcso; 27th July 2003 at 01:43.