Advice: article about restoring XP: reliable?

I'm stuck with a partially booting C partition after the GDI patch (removed
using system restore) and spent
a week reading all advise (I now boot from an emergency dual install of XP
on a second partition, which is working, but I would like to restore my
large, crippled C:\boot)
Nothing solved the problem. MS support advised a clean start.

Repairing C is not available, a clean install would destroy too much
unrecoverable data.

At
http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/0..._boot_toot.htm
the author describes a uncommon restore:

- he copies all current major system files (default, sam, system, softw,
security)
to a temp file on C using the recovery console
- he then replaces them with the original old files from C:\windows\repair\
- he continues to extract files from a C:\System Volume Information\_restore
snapshot (from a restore point/time when the C boot was operational)
- using the RC he deletes the existing original registry files,
and then copies the System Restore snapshot files to the
C:\Windows\System32\Config folder

* Is the approach above:

- technically correct?
- possibly able to restore my troubled XP system that only boots
to a black screen with a mouse pointer (also in safe/etc) ?

All tech-MVP advice appreciated.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm stuck with a partially booting C partition after the
GDI patch (removed
>using system restore) and spent
>a week reading all advise (I now boot from an emergency
dual install of XP
>on a second partition, which is working, but I would like
to restore my
>large, crippled C:\boot)
>Nothing solved the problem. MS support advised a clean
start.
>
>Repairing C is not available, a clean install would
destroy too much
>unrecoverable data.
>
>At
>http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/0...torials/cw_boo
t_toot.htm
>the author describes a uncommon restore:
>
>- he copies all current major system files (default,
sam, system, softw,
>security)
> to a temp file on C using the recovery console
>- he then replaces them with the original old files from
C:\windows\repair\
>- he continues to extract files from a C:\System Volume
Information\_restore
> snapshot (from a restore point/time when the C boot
was operational)
>- using the RC he deletes the existing original registry
files,
> and then copies the System Restore snapshot files to
the
>C:\Windows\System32\Config folder
>
>* Is the approach above:
>
>- technically correct?
>- possibly able to restore my troubled XP system that
only boots
> to a black screen with a mouse pointer (also in
safe/etc) ?
>
>All tech-MVP advice appreciated.
>
That looks like an exact copy of mS article 307545

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;307545