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by philbert

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My W2K system motherboard went down last week and the model is no longer available, so I installed a new motherboard. Obviously Windows would no longer start, so I tried to recover from my installation CD, but the repair setup crashes. I've installed W2K again on a new partition but would deraly love to recover some registry entries.
Any suggestions?

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by maxwell edison

Look at Microsoft article Q249694, "How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware".

This article describes how to move a Windows installation to new or different hardware. You can use the information in this article to migrate a working Windows operating system and installed programs to a different or more powerful computer with minimal downtime. You can also use this procedure to replace a small system/boot disk drive to a larger system/boot disk drive, or to restore a Windows backup from a non-working computer to a different computer for disaster recovery purposes.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;KO;q249694

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This procedure shows how to merge differences inhardware configuration information between computers and maintain critical registry entries unique to the new computer to which you are restoring information. This capability makes it possible to perform a full backup of your source computer and restore it on top of a fresh Windows installation on your destination computer to migrate to new hardware.

Good luck,

Maxwell

by philbert

Maxwell,
The article presupposes that you can access the old machine or, at least, a recent system backup of that machine and that there must be a level of compatability between old and new. In this case it could be said that virtually all the hardware has changed and that the "old machine" is inaccessible. All I really have is the "raw" registry files!
Thanks, Phil

by shanghai sam

Thanks DK, I didn't know that regedt32 did this. It's still a bit risky, but the resource kit has a utility (RegFind) that will do excatly what I'm after).
Phil

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