[dba-Tech] OT W2K Help!!!!!!

As you'll see you were on the right lines. I'd already tried copying it
to c:\winnt\system32 and c:\nt4\system32. When I got that Linux reg
editor going I discovered it was pointing to c:\windows\system. Copying
it there has cracked it. 

Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Bryan Carbonnell
> Sent: 08 July 2003 10:46
> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT W2K Help!!!!!!
> 
> 
> On 8 Jul 2003 at 10:23, Andy Lacey wrote:
> > 
> > Essentially it seems to be that the file userinit.exe is in 
> one place 
> > but the registry is pointing to it in a different place. I can now 
> > access the C: drive (it is fat32) via a newer DOS disk, and the 
> > userinit.exe file is in c:\windows\system32. That leaves me 
> with the 
> > question of how to interrorgate a W2K registry when I can't get W2k 
> > started. And I have no other W2K machines and I'm not on a network. 
> > Any of you kind and wonderful people any idea on that one?
> 
> Here's a though.
> 
> If you think it's the registry that is pointing to the wrong spot, 
> copy the file to where the W2K want's it to be.
> 
> Make a c:\winnt directory and copy the userinit file to the 
> directory. That may get you in long enough to edit the registry to 
> point back to the right spot.
> 
> --
> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
> Change is inevitable; progress is optional.
> 
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