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Running System Restore from the Recovery Console (well, sort of)


Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor
02.21.2006
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One of the most commonly requested features in Windows is the ability to boot to the Recovery Console and perform a System Restore operation. There are times when it's simply not possible to boot Windows in safe mode to run System Restore, and the Recovery Console has no built-in way of running System Restore.

That being said, if you need to run System Restore to revert the system to an earlier version of the SYSTEM or SOFTWARE Registry hive, because of a corrupted Registry, it is possible to do this manually. This method is far from perfect and doesn't take into account any of the other changes that System Restore might track (such as changed .DLLs or other system components), but it will allow


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you to recover copies of the Registry in the event of a failure—provided they've been saved with System Restore and are available.

Here is the 12-step process:

If you have an alternate operating system, such as a Linux live-recovery CD or another installation of Windows, that has access to the NTFS file system, you can perform the file copying from there as well, without having to struggle as much with the command line.


Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Power Users Newsletter. Check it out for the latest advice and musings on the world of Windows network administrators -- and please share your thoughts as well!

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