All,

I have found my problem!

I am doing a fresh silent install of NT.  As many of you NT hacks knows
this generates a new machine SID.  Then when I auto-login as administrator,
I generate a new user SID based on my machine SID.  So when I tried to
restore the user registry file, the restore failed due to the fact that
my original SID doesn't match my new SID.

I am now working on a script that will parse my old SID out of the
backed up registry file and insert it into my new registry.  After that
is done my scripted, silent bare-metal restore will overlay my original
registry.

The end result of what I am doing will be a fully unattended bare-metal
restore of Windows NT.


Joshua S. Bassi
Storage Management Team Lead
Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM V3
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX and
Mid-Range Storage Technical Solutions
Dickens Services Group
(404) 386-9848
jbassi AT gloryworks DOT com