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by galehickey2

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Can I make a copy of my system.dat
file into a folder and have a copy of my
registry? Should the replacement be done in safemode?

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by awdfg

You can definately copy the registry file system.dat and it need not be done in safe mode.Along with system.dat you also need to copy user.dat file.When your registry gets corrupted simply replace the original files with the backups.This you can only do in DOS mode only(not Windows DOS box).Note that the files system.dat and user.dat are hidden files.You have to use the attrib command to unhide them.

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