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Scan and fix errors in system.dat file?

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by 3iron

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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 unknown 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 whoozhe

From everything I have read once the reg is corrupted that is that and unless you have a reasonable current backup the only solution is reinstal windows and all your software. The number of entries that software place in the registry would be far too extensive to try and build

by 3iron

Thanks for your reply. I've just found a backup copy of the registry made (unknown to me) by Nuts and Bolts and I was able to use this to get back to where I was a few weeks ago.

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