Registry mixup

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.registry (More info?)

I tried to open a registry export from another computer with regedit and now
computer doesn't boot up.
I used regedit \d:backup_newcomputer\new_reg.reg

Now when I boot the computer I get the blue screen of death.
It is an NT4 Service pack 5

There wasn't a emergency disk, we just got this computer.

Can anybody give suggestions on repairing after booting with NT4 CD?

Thanks,
David

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.registry (More info?)

is it worth to repair?

What was in this reg file (you can open it in notepad to see content)? If it
is full SYSTEM hive of another different computer and you have not backup of
your original system. hive, the best way is to backup your data through any
independent backup sw or another OS instance and reinstall machine.

Command you used merged content of reg file with your registry, replacing
existing keys and values, so you can try to repair registry hives without
ERD (last backup from repair folder will be used), but this repair is rarely
successful. Better to save copy of current registry hives before doing this,
backup in repair folder is usually far out of date.

You can do backup and repairs also by using secondary OS instance.
Install secondary copy of system to different drive, partition or folder. If
you are forced to use last option - having only one drive and partition -
and want to use it for repair purposes, you should to install the same
version of SP and the same version of MSIE as original operating system
instance has. It is becasue NT based OS instances installed on the same
partition are sharing some common files in Program Files folder. You need
like 150MB of free space for basic NT OS install and like twice more if you
need to apply any SP to it.

luck

George

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> I tried to open a registry export from another computer with regedit and
now
> computer doesn't boot up.
> I used regedit \d:backup_newcomputer\new_reg.reg
>
> Now when I boot the computer I get the blue screen of death.
> It is an NT4 Service pack 5
>
> There wasn't a emergency disk, we just got this computer.
>
> Can anybody give suggestions on repairing after booting with NT4 CD?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>