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Old May 1st 11, 04:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Default Noodlebaking with Regedit!

I install exactly the same Ghost image of a system core onto two machines. I
have a Run-Once.bat file to create the registry from a REG file at first boot
after restoring the image, with an Autoexec line REGEDIT /C W98_CORE.REG

In one machine this creates SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT, in the other it doesn't!
Why? In both cases, REGEDIT.EXE reports 100% success. All other file accesses
appear to work as anyone with twenty years of DOS experience would expect. I
searched for SYSTEM.DAT using ATTRIB /S SYSTEM.* in the root of C because
that WILL find it, absolutely, if it's anywhere on that drive. All it found
was SYSTEM.INI and SYSTEM.DRV.

I wish I had oodles of cash prizes to give away because this one really IS a
three-pipe noodlebaker. Does anyone know the answer?
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Old May 1st 11, 07:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Default Noodlebaking with Regedit!

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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I install exactly the same Ghost image of a system core onto two
machines. I have a Run-Once.bat file to create the registry from a REG
file at first boot after restoring the image, with an Autoexec line
REGEDIT /C W98_CORE.REG

In one machine this creates SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT, in the other it
doesn't! Why? In both cases, REGEDIT.EXE reports 100% success. All other
file accesses appear to work as anyone with twenty years of DOS
experience would expect. I searched for SYSTEM.DAT using ATTRIB /S
SYSTEM.* in the root of C because that WILL find it, absolutely, if it's
anywhere on that drive. All it found was SYSTEM.INI and SYSTEM.DRV.

I wish I had oodles of cash prizes to give away because this one really
IS a three-pipe noodlebaker. Does anyone know the answer?


Ok, I got it. It's REGEDIT itself, it will hunt for a SYSTEM.DAT and find it,
even if it can't find one till it reaches the last logical drive on the last
disk (of three in this case) in the system, so long as it's also in a dir
called WINDOWS in the root of that drive! Never mind envvar %WINDIR% or
whatever is in MSDOS.SYS, it utterly ignores that if it checks it at all, and
persists in using some obscure backup SYSTEM.DAT file it shouldn't even know
about.

I still don't know why it should do this, or if there is any way to over-ride
this except by forcing a total absence of _:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT where _ is
any drive whatsover. While it's possible to tell REGEDIT explicitly where
SYSTEM.DAT is to get an export to REG file, I don't know if the same can be
done when creating a new registry, or adding entries to an existing DAT file.
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Old May 1st 11, 07:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Default Noodlebaking with Regedit!

Lostgallifreyan wrote in
:

I wish I had oodles of cash prizes to give away because this one really
IS a three-pipe noodlebaker. Does anyone know the answer?


Hmm, three hours, if not three pipes.
 




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