The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Once in Linux I had much more power at my command. I copied the user’s documents and data to a USB memory stick. I browsed the C: drive, and I looked up messages online using the Firefox web browser.
I knew, from the time spent battling with Windows, that the problem was a corrupt registry. This meant the files in C:\Windows\System32\Config were damaged.
First I copied these onto the flash stick too, expecting that if one or more files could not copy that this would show a faulty file, and a possibly damaged physical disk. However, the files all copied without incident.
I looked under C:\System Volume Information for registry files but alas, System Restore had been disabled on this particular system.
Not to worry, for good versions were in C:\Windows\System32\Config\RegBack. I’d already backed up the current registry files to the flash disk above so I replaced them with the ones under RegBack.
This time, and delightfully, the laptop rebooted into Windows just as if nothing happened. A few tests confirmed the system was fully operational with all software and policies and options as they should be.
I was mildly surprised; literature indicated the files under RegBack were typically old copies from when the system was first installed unless a backup tool had been used. Nevertheless, all our post-setup installations were present and working.
Given that Windows identified the problem was a registry issue, and that all I had to do was replace the in-use registry with copies from the RegBack folder it is astounding Windows was unable to perform these simple steps in its alleged auto-repair mode.
Nevertheless, with nary a tool but an Ubuntu Linux Live CD the system was repaired and running.
There was no loss of data, there was no time spent re-imaging. The user was happy.
No matter how disposed you are towards Windows, if you don’t have at least one Linux CD in your arsenal you’re hampering yourself. It’s a better Windows recovery tool than Windows itself.
David Bass
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