| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2886.1 | | AXEL::FOLEY | http://axel.zko.dec.com | Wed Apr 02 1997 11:01 | 11 |
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I figured it out.. I broke down and installed a fresh copy
on a new disk and the system booted fine. I suspect a problem
with the old PCI drivers installed on the old disk and the
new PCI chipset on the motherboard.
Now I just wish I could open the old registry to pull stuff
out of it. Anyone seen a tool to do that?
mike
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| 2886.2 | safe mode? | SIOG::L_POWER | | Wed Apr 02 1997 12:17 | 4 |
| Have you tried booting in safe mode? if so does it also time out?
have you checked your BIOS support for large HDD in your scsi utility?
let me know.
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| 2886.3 | | AXEL::FOLEY | http://axel.zko.dec.com | Wed Apr 02 1997 12:39 | 15 |
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Booting in Safe Mode didn't help. It was hard to tell if it
was slow or just hanging.
BIOS support for large HDD's only applies to IDE disks. The
motherboard is brand new with BIOS support for the NCR 53C810
SCSI adapter I have. The boot disk having problems was only
520MB. The disk I'm now using is a 800+MB disk. That's not
having a problem.
I still think it comes down to lots of "old" crud. It's
probably better that I reinstall anyways. However, I
would like to get at the old registry information on the old disk.
mike
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| 2886.4 | exporting registry | SIOG::L_POWER | | Fri Apr 04 1997 09:22 | 5 |
| to get info from the registry use the dos based regedit with the /e
switch to extract. if you type regedit/? it will give you a
comprehensive listing of all available options.
you can also export registry branches using the windows95 gui based
regedit (back up your existing system.dat 1st though!!)
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| 2886.5 | | AXEL::FOLEY | http://axel.zko.dec.com | Fri Apr 04 1997 11:59 | 9 |
| RE: .4
Thanks.. I found the info last night on the MS Knowledge Base
and tried it out at home. I copied the old system and user.dat
files and exported them to .reg files. I should be able to
gleen what I need from them. (it's still probably easier to
just reinstall the whole thing. :))
mike
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| 2886.6 | Registry editor in NU v2.0 ? | DANGER::ARRIGHI | and miles to go before I sleep | Fri Apr 04 1997 13:01 | 6 |
| There should be a way to get the registry editor in Norton Utilities
v2.0 to point to something other than the current registry, but I'm not
sure. It's a nice tool -- search facilities, easy backups or branch
backups, cool stuff for registry wimps like me.
Tony
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| 2886.7 | | AXEL::FOLEY | http://axel.zko.dec.com | Fri Apr 04 1997 16:55 | 6 |
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Alas, I don't have a copy of the Norton Utilities.. It'll
be cut and paste to .reg files for me..
mike
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| 2886.8 | | PCBUOA::BAYJ | Jim, Portables | Tue Apr 08 1997 13:17 | 9 |
| I tried to export the section of the registry that stores the
color schemes. It worked, but it is a single entry with every single
scheme in it. If you try to import it into another system, it will
wipe out any customizations already on the target machine.
Anyone know a way to grab just one scheme?
jeb
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