Re: creating the SAM repair file

["S. R. White" <swprofile () yahoo com>]

When using the built in backup utility in Windows, you can cause it to be 
created by backing up the "system state", which will force a new copy of the SAM 
in %SYSTEM_ROOT%/Repair.




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From: Ryan Dewhurst <ryandewhurst () gmail com>
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Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 8:45:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] creating the SAM repair file

I believe it gets created after a system restore has been done but I'm not 100% 
sure.


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:

This may be a daft question but what generates, or causes to be
> generated, the Windows repair files which includes the SAM file?
>
> I'm wondering because I've been on a couple of jobs where the file has
> been missing and I'm wondering if there is anything I could do to
> force the system to generate it so I can steal it and get cracking.
>
> Robin
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