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 metal restore
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.