Did you every make an emergency repair disk or run the rdisk /s- program?
If so, there might be some hope of restoring the c:\winnt\system32\repair
folder and doing a selective system 'repair/restore'
-----Original Message-----
From: Tor Rognmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:52 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Restoring i-mail after server crash
>No I didn't back up the registry. I had a tape backup of the whole hard
>drive - system folders included - based on the assumption that if there was
>a crash everything would be restored. The problem is that after the restore
>there is new and different hardware in the machine, and win2000 goes
>directly to the blue screen of death because of the old device drivers. So
I
>had to go for a full install of the server and then restore bit by bit from
>the latest full tape.
>Is there anywhere on this tape that I might be able to pull something out
of
>the old registry, or is that mute unless I restore everything?
>Thanks,
>Tor
>
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>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:14 PM
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>Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Restoring i-mail after server crash
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>Did you back up the registry when you made those backups to tape?
>You will need that for sure to get the usernames and passwords
>back in there.
>
>Other than that it sounds like a plan.
>
>Dusty
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Tor Rognmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 3:37 PM
>Subject: [IMail Forum] Restoring i-mail after server crash
>
>
>> I'm in the process of restoring a server after a hardware failure led to
>> corruption of win2000. Will the following procedure:
>> 1. Install imail 6.02 on the server
>> 2. Restore the c:\i-mail folder from the most recent backup tape
>> be correct, or are there files in other locations - created when I set up
>> hosts/accounts, that would be lost in that way?
>> Thanks for any advice on this.
>> Tor
>
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