machine name

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Hi all,
Is there any way to get the machine name without boot up the machine into Windows? One of our machine couldn't boot into Windows although the hard drive was still accessable. We forgot it's machine name and we wanted to use back the same machine name when we rebuild it.

TIA
 
You could do this by loading the SYSTEM file of the
dead machine on some other machine, then examining
the HKLM hive for the computer name. It's a somewhat
tedious process and probably not worth the effort.
Hi all,
Is there any way to get the machine name without boot up the machine into Windows? One of our machine couldn't boot into Windows although the hard drive was still accessable. We forgot it's machine name and we wanted to use back the same machine name when we rebuild it.

TIA
 
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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You could do this by loading the SYSTEM file of the
dead machine on some other machine, then examining
the HKLM hive for the computer name. It's a somewhat
tedious process and probably not worth the effort.
 
Hi Pegasus,
Thanks for your direction. I found out how to get the computer name from registry. But, how do I load the SYSTEM file from the dead machine? What program should I use and which SYSTEM file should I look into?

TIA
el
You could do this by loading the SYSTEM file of the
dead machine on some other machine, then examining
the HKLM hive for the computer name. It's a somewhat
tedious process and probably not worth the effort.
Hi all,
Is there any way to get the machine name without boot up the machine into Windows? One of our machine couldn't boot into Windows although the hard drive was still accessable. We forgot it's machine name and we wanted to use back the same machine name when we rebuild it.

TIA
 
Run regedt32, then from the Local Machine Hive, choose Registry|Load Hive.
Then navigate to the location of the hive you want to edit/read. Give it
some tempname (doesn't matter what). Then when your done, move the cursor
back to tempname, then Registry|Unload Hive, Registry|Exit

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
Hi Pegasus,
Thanks for your direction. I found out how to get the computer name from
registry. But, how do I load the SYSTEM file from the dead machine? What
program should I use and which SYSTEM file should I look into?

TIA
el
 
Thanks Dave. But which system file should I look into? and where is it
located in the dead machine?
 
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