Name of the host through a file

I am looking for a way to find the name of a host through a file. Here's what I mean. I have a few hard drives removed old computers, but we forgot to label the machines that they have been removed. Now, we need to know which hard drive is what computer, but we do not have the original material, only hard drives.

Does anyone know of any files that are created in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folders that contain the host name of the computer while it has been initialized? I have the opportunity to read the files on the hard drives via a USB adapter.

Thank you!

Probably the most reliable is to scan the registry file.

(1) copy of the file: \Windows\System32\config\system since the topic on your local hard disk drive)
(2) launch Regedit (start-> Run-> 'regedit')
(3) click on 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' to select
(4): file-> load hive.  Then navigate to and select the "System" file that you copied from the external drive.
(5) when it is required by a key name enter a name - I will use "EXT" for this example.
6) double-click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and you will see an "EXT" key under it.
7) go to EXT\ControlSet001\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName
(8) there should be an entry in the window on the right with the name of the computer.
(9) for clean, click once on the "EXT" key to select then drop-> unload the hive.  Answer 'Yes' to the next box.

HTH,
JW

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