Preface:
Before you begin, please read the original tutorial and understand what it is i am explaining here, this is nowhere near as detailed as my other tutorial, its only meant to explain to you how to cut corners using UBCD4Win
READ THIS BEFORE STARTING:
http://hypography.com/forums/tutoria...-long-way.html
Tutorial:
For this tutorial, you will need a UBCD4Win CD.
- Download the builder from
UBCD for Windows
- Run the installer and extract the contents to C:/UBCD4Win
- Put in an XP installation CD, and copy the I386 folder to C:/I386 (which is not a bad idea to have, anyhow)
- Read the instructions on the website and run the builder.
- Personally, for dealing with harddrive etc issues, i have a separate build of UBCD, i take out all AV and spyware junk out of it, as well as a many programs as i can that dont pertain to hard drive, and all the extra bootable images, before building the CD.
When the Builder comletes you are left with a standard Iso, burn it to a cd, and you are ready to go.
To this point i was vague, because building UBCD is slighly different, all the time, and it does have a nasty tendency to not work when you need it to, remember you can always go back to the original write up, this will simply speed the process up
Boot into UBCD, their slick explorer-like interface is awesome for this kind of minute file manipulation and the entire restore process can be summed up thusly:
- Open up File Explorer
- Navigate to your system hard drive, you should see all of your files in there, handy, eh?
- Go into the "Windows" directory and create a new folder, the way you normally would in windows... call it tmp
- Now go into the System32/config
- You should see the following files:
system
sam
software
security
default
- Very simply, holding down control, click to select the files, right click on one of the selected files and go say Cut
- Navigate back to the tmp directory, right click on the empty space, and say Paste
Nearly 1/2 way there already
- Now lets go into tools, folder options, and enable ourselves the view of the hidden system files, etc.
- Go to you system drive, and navigate to the System Volume Information. Remember, you can now just give yourself enough permissions to view the folder, but i think here, you will at least be able to view the folder.
- Enable Details in the View drop down
- in System Volume Information, find the one folder, or folders starting with _restore{ followed by a bunch of numbers, that were not created that day, go inside, and find the restore point.
- Choose one, go into the Snapshot folder
- Now you can Control (Ctrl) select the following files:
_registry_user_.default
_registry_machine_security
_registry_machine_software
_registry_machine_system
_registry_machine_sam
- Right click and say Copy (not Cut)
- Navigate to Windows/system32/config folder, and paste the files inside
- Rename the files to their previous counterpart names:
_registry_user_.default - default
_registry_machine_security - security
_registry_machine_software - software
_registry_machine_system - system
_registry_machine_sam - sam
- Close explorer, hit the start button and reboot your machine
You have just done the same thing as i described in the previous tutorial, in 1/4 of the time.
Enjoy
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