Restoring restore points without windows

[kisk]

Fixing an XP MCE 2005 laptop and I had initially told the client that it would be better to just wipe the drive and start fresh (saving her personal files of course).

Well I transfered all her old files over with a linux distro and looked in her system volume info directory and she has a ton of restore points and I was wondering if there are any tools out there that can use those to restore the computer back to one of those. Even though I pulled her keys for MS Office and such so she could reuse them I'm sure she'd rather not have to reinstall everything.

Her system won't boot into safe or normal mode.

 

[Tweak]

Boot to XP cd and use Recovery Console.

 

[kisk]

I know you can restore old registry hives, but what if I need the system files stored in the repository restored as well?

 

[Tweak]

I know you can restore old registry hives, but what if I need the system files stored in the repository restored as well?

Like this perhaps then?

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives...-windows-system-using-offline-system-restore/

 

[kisk]

Yes I actually tried that last night but couldn't get it to boot.. going to check the boot sector and try again.

 

[kisk]

Got ERG Commander working... wow powerful tool.. I like! Gunna have to charge extra cause its almost more work restoring a battered system than doing a OS re-install

 

[cheapgeektech]

Couldn't you use Ultimate Boot Disc and go to the registry restore wizard. Just a thought and you can only use that on XP, would be great if someone had something like that for Vista.

 

[Tweak]

Got ERG Commander working... wow powerful tool.. I like! Gunna have to charge extra cause its almost more work restoring a battered system than doing a OS re-install

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[kisk]

Couldn't you use Ultimate Boot Disc and go to the registry restore wizard. Just a thought and you can only use that on XP, would be great if someone had something like that for Vista.

The UBCD tool to recover the registry only does that -- recover the registry. I can do that with a live linux disk. I needed the restore point's backup system files as well.

There is a vista version but these days you have to dig deep to find it, or have the rights