On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:48:47 -0500, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>Unless there's something particular you're needing that you
>didn't mention, there's no need to be deleting partitions to
>move settings and files from one installation of an OS to
>another.

I did not give that part about deleting partitions any consideration
because it was based on the particular problem being addressed by that
KB article. I brought the part I considered relevant to your
attention. Now I wish I had excised the unnecessary parts, like the
part about deleting partitions.

My question remains: Is that procedure a reasonable way to go about
creating a clean install with the prior configuration? If so, I would
think when you did the Restore, you would have to tell ntbackup not to
overwrite existing files or else what is the point of the fresh
install in the first place.

But more importantly what about the Registry. Ntbackup has a provision
for backing up the "System State" but I do not know what happens with
a Restore of this item since I have not used it. Will it fill in those
Registry Keys that are not present in the fresh install? Does it obey
the restriction not to overwrite existing keys? What about restoring
the data in a given Key that is missing? IOW, will using ntbackup with
the System State create a correct representation of the old
configuration?


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