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Scan and fix errors in an old system.dat

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by 3iron 1 view

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My win98 system crashed and corrupted the Registry. Unfortunately, the last 5 backups of the Registry were a year old as this had been turned off unwittingly in msconfig. I've tried to replace the user.dat and system.dat files in DOS with the user.dat and system.dat from the rbbad.cab file which contains the very latest registry files but with errors. When I run scanreg /fix, it gives me an error at 93% of system.dat.

So, does anyone know how I can scan and fix errors in system.dat, *not* the one running on my system (which is a year old) but the one on my desktop (from the rbbad.cab file)?

Hope you can help.

Thanks.

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by saihib

Go into C:\Windows\sysbckup and rename the rbbad.cab file to rbbad.bac. Then take the rbbad.cab file on your desktop and put it in the sysbckup folder and run scanreg.

by 3iron

I tried this earlier without any luck - scan reg just errors out on the most recent system.dat file.

I've got the problem sorted as someone suggested I do a search in my windows folder for any other system.* files and I found a backup created last week by an unrelated program. I was able to use this one to get back (almost) to where I was.

Thanks for your reply.

by 3iron

Yes - as I said in my questions, the last 5 backups viewed under scanreg /restore were there ok but they were one year old.

I've got sorted another way - see my reply above.

Thanks anyway.

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