Hi there

Last night I got a blue screen on a 2003 server that I urgently need to restore today. The STOP message is 'bad_system_config_info' which I understand to relate to a problem with the registry. The server had not had any backups taken (in fact the blue screen occured after trying to image the drive with some linux based imaging program) and system restore had not been previously activated.

What I have done after trying all the F8 options is to load the recovery console and back up the registry files in c:\windows\system32\config before restoring the initial installation registry files under c:\windows\repair.

The server will now load but obviously all the settings are all over the place. There has been a LOT of configuration on this server.

My question is - Are there any tools out there that anybody knows about which will allow me to find what the problem is with the original registry so that I can fix it and restore again?

Alternatively does anybody have any experience of this problem or any ideas on how might best be the way to go about fixing it?

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks

M

Hi Varnik

Thanks for the response. I tried this last week but unfortunately it wasn't to be. I rebuilt the system and it didnt take too long in the end.

I think I'll use ASR from now on...

thanks