Yes I did do that. Interestingly those regback files were dated yesterday so I didn't hold my breath...yeah they didn't work. OK I was kinda thinking that was where I was at. Thank You
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] The good news is it happened on a weekend....(VM W2K12 BSD) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 00:03:27 +0000 Backup registry hives would be in %systemroot%\system32\config\regback You’d need to copy them over the top of the main files in %systemroot%\system32\config – I’m not sure if Windows already looks for these during boot or not these days. Hmm – otherwise, I think you could be out-of-luck (unless someone can tell you where these CRM solutions are saved) Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bonner Sent: Monday, 3 March 2014 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] The good news is it happened on a weekend....(VM W2K12 BSD) Ummmm...if that is something Microsoft does to save the bacon of idiots like me then no....where can I find said backup. If it is something we have to make the effort to setup then no the company considered the dev machine not mission critical...cause the code is checked in every night right... JB From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] The good news is it happened on a weekend....(VM W2K12 BSD) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 23:40:25 +0000 System (HKM) registry hive is corrupt. Did you try restoring that hive from the backup copy and/or restoring a backup? Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bonner Sent: Monday, 3 March 2014 10:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] The good news is it happened on a weekend....(VM W2K12 BSD) The bad news is I have a VM - W2K12 that I can't get to boot. (My question is at the bottom just telling you everything I have tried first) More good news is that it is a development machine so fortunately come Monday morning we won't be loosing transactional business but internal productivity will be impacted. So from what I can tell the host machine crashed and this was the only VM running at the time. After reboot the host machine seems fine and the other vm's all start and run fine. So specifically it boots then says an error occurred and reboots. I have tried repeatedly and none of the boot menu option work i.e.: Safe Mode -- No Go Safe Mode Command Prompt -- No Go Repair Windows -- No Go etc. By no go I mean it tries but in the end crashes. One thing that I can get to reveal something is to select the option to not reboot after an error. When I do that I get: BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO I googled that and got several paths but none proved fruitful. Seems to be the consensus though that this type error and behavior is a registry problem. I remember (perhaps incorrectly) back in the 2008 R2 days that one could reinstall core files from the installation media. So I cracked that out and gave it a whir but nothing like that exists now. (Sorry this SysAdmin stuff is not my main thing....fortunately for the company) Finally I tried copyinh the files from regbak per these instructions to no avail. While all this was going on I began spinning up a new vm as a backup in case this went nowhere. The new machine is now online and I am going to move forward with it.... HOWEVER...on the old machine I have some data I would like to get back. Here's the question: Specifically this was a dev box for CRM 2013 customizations. Now I was able to mount the vm disk as a second drive on another vm and peruse the contents no problem. I could take sql data files to another server and attach no problem so the disk seems to be in good order. What I am after is specifically one or two crm solutions that have not been put into source code yet. What would be best is to get the os to load and crm services to start. I could export the solutions to disk. I can grab them off there and then it could die forever as far as I am concerned. So any ideas or additional troubleshooting etc. that might help me get this sucker running for 10 minutes tops would be greatly appreciated. TIA JB
