We are not having good luck doing a full restore of Windows NT.  This
is just a practice run, but it is making us uneasy.  I'll append below
a description of the procedure we are using.  I would appreciate any
advice you may have.

Melinda Varian,
Princeton University

The following are the steps I followed to restore my backup onto my
machine from a completely formatted hard disk.

1. create a repair partition--at setup created primary partition to
restore my machine to and another small partition (ntfs) as the repair.

2. created boot disk--boot.ini points to repair partition.

3. booted to repair with boot disk, using disk administrator, formatted
the primary partition as ntfs.

4. installed client for netware on repair partition.

5. from repair partition, logged onto network, ran adsm from network and
restored to primary partition.

The following is on the primary partition:

6. recovered registry--copied
from
        \adsm.sys\registry\name\machine\*.*,
        \adsm.sys\registry\name\users\default, and
        \adsm.sys\registry\name\users\"user"\*.*
to
        \system32\config.
(where name equals name of restored partition)

7. rebooted. logged on as administrator and user on local machine just
fine. try to get to domain as user and get the following error:

 System cannot log user on to the domain because the system computer
 account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account
 is incorrect.

Tried the following resolutions which did not fix error condition:

In control panel, system, user profiles, removed user\domain

Removed user profiles in winnt\profiles

Removed machine from domain and created new domain account