Scanreg /restore fail lost items on menu

[KimberTech]

The short version, ran scanreg /restore and it failed for the 24th to the 29th. After it fails it removes that entry from the menu.
I realized that I had a drive locking issue causing the operation to fail and had one for the 30th run, but the other entries are no longer available.

I know there are cab files that contain this information, what I need to know is if I can manually do this from dos or manually reference these from scanreg in dos.

Any and all help most appreciated. I have had this system on the bench WAY too long....and I am out of time to search the information out.

Kimber

 

[mattjurado]

Have you searched for *.reg. Not sure if this is the format of the files scanreg creates automatically... For some reason, searching for r*.cab also comes to mind. If you find them, make copies somewhere safe, in case scanreg kills them after you try them. Also, what's prompting your registry problems?

Matt J.

 

[wolluf]

rbnnn.cab in \windows\sysbckup (where nnn is number) - extract command should get contents, which is system.dat, user.dat, system.ini, win.ini.

 

[KimberTech]

Hmm....wolluf you may be on to something that explains a LOT.
Sysbckup folder not found anywhere on the system, and I did not notice that before.

To answer the question from Matt....this is another virus infested and damaged Win98 system...one of many I have seen of late.....

Seems like a coincidence, but there is hardware damage on this board that doesn't seem related. Don't know, this one has me stumped. I have replaced a lot of parts, and have done an overlay install of the OS. Still messing with it. Just when I thought I had it all going again, Windowsupdate goofed up the modem driver and now I am having boot problems again for seemingly no reason at all.

Will keep plugging away. Thanks for the replies!

K