Jerry -
Looks like you lost your personal profile.

There are a couple of things that could go wrong.
Do you have DSMC REGBACK USER CURUSER in the STARTUP GROUP for your id,
so that it runs when your id logs on?

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        From:   Jerry Lawson[SMTP:jlawson AT thehartford DOT com]
        Sent:   Tuesday, January 13, 1998 2:40 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
        Subject:        BAre Metal Restore on NT V4

        Date:     January 13, 1998              Time: 10:18 AM
        From:     Jerry Lawson
                  The Hartford Insurance Group
        (860)  547-2960          jlawson AT thehartford DOT com

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        Yesterday I had the distinct joy and privilege of doing a bare
        Yesterday I had the distinct joy and privilege of doing a bare
metal restore
        on my C: drive under NT V4 Workstation.  I had planned ahead,
and had a
        repair partition built and tested, so there was no really
excruciating pain
        involved, but I have had some interesting problems with the
registry since
        then.

        Here is what I did:

        1.  Booted from repair partition.

        2.  Deleted old C: drive (NTFS format), and reformatted (as FAT)
size did
        not change.

        3.  Started ADSM (V3 client) and restored the entire C: drive.

        4.  When the restore was complete, I copied the registry
information from the
        adsm.sys directory to the WINNT/SYSTEM32 directory as described
in the
        redbook on bare metal restores.  (all 3 directories - all
components within
        the directories.

        5.  I shut down the repair partition, and rebooted from the
freshly restored
        c: drive.  NT came up fine, but many of my preferences were
gone.


        I should point out here that I have been running REGBACK each
day as part of
        the boot procedure.

        What was missing?   For example, all of the icons were back on
my desktop,
        but were rearranged.  The desktop customization (color, picture)
were gone.
        The screen definitions (1024 x 768) were there, but the fonts
look strange,
        Sound customization was also gone.  Applications like the ADSM
        Administrator's registry entries are also gone.  Microsoft Word
V7 had the
        same problem, as did XCEL.

        I did not expect this much lost information - Does anyone know
if this is
        normal, or did I miss something in the restore (or backup)
process?


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                                                             Jerry
                                                             Jerry

        Insanity is doing the same thing over and over..and expecting
the results to
        be different - Anon.