Can I access the registry of a Windows installation on a disk that is not the main Windows disk?

The original installation was Windows 2000 Server. The old motherboard failed. The disc is fine.

There is information in the original register I want to import into the new registry of Server 2008.

Can I access this original registry if the drive on which he lives is seen as separated by another installation disc?

IE: I have the original disc of server installed on a PC bench. This PC bench sees the original server disk in drive E:

I am able to see the entire disk of the original server disk structure.

Can I access the registry Windows of this disc?

Can I export a few registry keys to import them into the new registry of the server?

Yes.

You can do this by using Regedit and editing of your disk E: registry as a "hive" in your registry active.  To do this, follow the following procedure:

  • First, back up your current registry in case things go wrong.  Then
  • Start Regedit (start-> Run-> 'regedit')
  • Start Regedit, click once on 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' (or HKEY_USERS) to select
  • Select the file-> load hive
  • Navigate to the registry file you want to extract entries from and double-click it
    (Probably E:\Windows\System32\Config\...)
  • A window will appear asking a key name.  Enter something unique (I'll use "ABC" here)
  • Now, look in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE".  You will see an entry 'ABC '.  Navigate in this article and you will find entries to the registry hive that you selected.  You can now extract parts of it with the file-> export
  • Take what you want then once finished, click once on the entry 'ABC' and make a file-> unload the hive.
  • Exit Regedit
  • After the export of the files, use a text editor to edit the path in the exported file to where you want to put in your registry and double-click it to merge in.

Hope that this gets you where you want to be,
JW

Tags: Windows

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