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Help! How to restore user accounts/profiles?
Name: Peter Date: October 1, 2000 at 07:42:13 Pacific
Comment:
I hava some problems with my server's hard drives that I have to re-partition them and reinstall NT4.0. How do I restore all the user accounts (including logon name, password, profile, user rights)to the new NT4.0. I back up the server everyday. Does NT maintain a user account file that contains all the necessary information so I can just copy this file from my existing NT to the new one? Please help! I don't want to recreate every user account, plus I don't know all the passwords.
Name: NT man Date: October 2, 2000 at 21:19:15 Pacific
Reply:
If you backed up the registry on the DC's, you're in luck. The SAM is stored in the registry (This includes all account information, but not the enviornment settings). Just perform a full restore.
Please elaborate on the above response, perform a full restore? a restore of the registry? I have a similar prob. , except when i restore the reg. it blue screens on startup ... is there specific files that i can restore instead of the whole registry? Thanks in advance
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