Hi Fred!
If the OS would allow you to replace open/locked files it would
definitely crash the system. ADSM allows you to overwrite (some) open
files, but a lot of files (for instance .DLL files) are locked by the
Operating System. These files cannot be replaced.
Your user should do the following to recover a Windows NT system:
1) He should install Windows NT in a different directory. The default is
c:\winnt, he should install it in something like c:\winnt.tmp.
2) He should install ADSM for Win32 in a different directory. The
default is c:\win32app\ibm\adsm, he should install it in something like
c:\win32app.tmp\ibm\adsm.
3) Now start ADSM and restore the entire C: drive. Windows NT reads the
file c:\boot.ini to see in which directory the OS files are installed.
By default (if you use the dsm.smp from the BACLIENT directory) this
file is excluded from the backup. If this is the case, you will have to
edit this file and change \winnt.tmp in \winnt.
4) Now reboot the system. Windows will use c:\winnt again and in that
windows version ADSM is installed in c:\win32app\ibm\adsm.
5) You can now delete the c:\winnt.tmp and c:\win32app.tmp\ibm\adsm
directories.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon