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WinRescue 2000 2.08.34 - User Guide and FAQ

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How to Prepare for a Crash

If Windows 2000 is running well, take the following steps to protect your system from a crash.
Please note that only the Administrator has the ability to backup and restore the registry with WinRescue 2000.
Make a WinRescue 2000 Backup - press the big Backup button on the Backup tab of WinRescue 2000 or use the Backup Wizard to backup the registry (to backup the registry, you must check the Registry item in Backup Preferences). You should make WinRescue 2000 Backups regularly.
Make a Boot Disk - go to the Boot Disk tab. Insert a blank diskette in the diskette drive, select 2000 Boot Disk from the dropdown box, and press the Boot Disk button.
Create a bootable diskette with DOS (see instructions for the Boot Disk tab) and insert it in the diskette drive. Select DOS Boot Disk from the dropdown box and click on the Boot Disk button.
New Boot Disks don't have to be made unless you move the Windows directory or change to a different version of Windows, in which case, you would have to also get a new version of WinRescue.
Make Win2000 Setup Disks - if you do not have the Setup Disks that were made when installing Win2000, use WinRescue 2000 to create them from the Repair tab. You must have four blank 1.44mb diskettes and the Win2000 CD. These diskettes can be used to restore and fix Windows 2000.

What to do when Windows does strange things

When Windows 2000 starts to do unexpected things, the registry is usually to blame. You can change the registry back to the way it was before by restoring to a WinRescue 2000 backup that was made before the problems started occuring. Without a tool such as WinRescue 2000, there is no way to restore or backup the registry in Win2000.

If Windows 2000 will not start, see the next section.

What to do when Windows crashes

There are basically two things that will usually go bad with Windows 2000: one is the boot up process and the other is the registry.
If the tips below don't work, try the slower solution of using the Win2000 Setup disks. If Win2000 is on a NTFS partition, for security reasons the only way to restore is by using the Win2000 Setup disks. Using the Win2000 Setup disks you can either repair the registry using the Boot Disk or reinstall Win2000. Once you are in Win2000, you can use WinRescue 2000 to restore the registry to the latest backup.

Boot up Process - if something goes wrong before the beginning menu is shown or immediately after an item is chosen from the beginning menu, then something is wrong with the boot up process. Use the Boot Disk made in WinRescue 2000 to start up. Once into Windows 2000, use the Crash Fixer of WinRescue to restore from another type of crash (WinConfig). These files can also be restored from another operating system, like, Win95, Win98, or DOS, using the DOS version of WinRescue 2000, wnresq2k.exe.
If you still cannot get into Windows 2000 with the Boot Disk, there must be something wrong with the registry. See the next section.

The Registry - if something goes wrong with the registry, Windows 2000 does not have a DOS system to fall back on, so if you cannot get into Windows 2000, you will have to restore the registry from another operating system or use the Win2000 Setup disks.
The DOS that comes with Windows 2000 (accessible by pressing F8 during startup) is actually run in Windows 2000, so if Windows 2000 doesn't work, it's DOS will not work either.
If you have the Boot Disk set up so that it boots to DOS, then you can go into DOS and run the DOS version of WinRescue, whether Windows 2000 works or not.
To restore from another operating system, start that operating system and run the DOS version of WinRescue 2000, wnresq2k.exe.
WinRescue 2000 keeps the registry files in one zip file called registry.daz. To restore the registry without the help of WinRescue 2000, just extract these files from the zip file, registry.daz, and place them in the Winnt\System32\Config directory (the ntuser file should be named ntuser.dat and put in the Documents and Settings\Administrator directory).

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