Registry on Data Disk?

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I have a system that crashed due to a motherboard failure. I am going to
rebuild it but expect that the system on the hard disk will not boot with the
new equipment. Not a problem, I can reinstall Win2K and reload the apps from
scratch. However, I really would like to read some of the app settings
contained in the registry of the old system. I can mount the hard drive as a
data drive on another system and access the registry files in system32/config.
I started to open them with regedit on that system, but registry asked if I
really want to load those values into the registry, which I really do *not*
want to do.

Does a registry viewer exist that would allow me to view the settings in the
registry files on the old system disk which I have mounted as a system disk?

Ideas?
 
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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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I have a system that crashed due to a motherboard failure. I am going to
| rebuild it but expect that the system on the hard disk will not boot with
the
| new equipment. Not a problem, I can reinstall Win2K and reload the apps
from
| scratch. However, I really would like to read some of the app settings
| contained in the registry of the old system. I can mount the hard drive as
a
| data drive on another system and access the registry files in
system32/config.
| I started to open them with regedit on that system, but registry asked if
I
| really want to load those values into the registry, which I really do
*not*
| want to do.
|
| Does a registry viewer exist that would allow me to view the settings in
the
| registry files on the old system disk which I have mounted as a system
disk?
|
| Ideas?
|
| --
| Mike.
|
 
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
Click to expand...

Thank you. That really helps. I did find that one has to sometimes close and
reopen the hive before the unload feature is available. The collective
knowledge that exists on the internet is astounding.
 
Glad it help. You're welcome.

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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

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| On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:39:37 -0700, Dave Patrick wrote:
| > 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
|
| Thank you. That really helps. I did find that one has to sometimes close
and
| reopen the hive before the unload feature is available. The collective
| knowledge that exists on the internet is astounding.
|
| --
| Thanks, Mike.
|
 
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