Adding to the registry from a disc

[Guest carl5544@aol.co.uk]

I recently had to reinstall Windows ME. I had previously backed up the

hard disk (by setting it as a slave in another machine and

transferring everything to DVDs) and had hoped to restore everything

by simply copying everything from the DVDs back onto the same hard

disk. But for some reason it wouldn't boot ("invalid system disk"

message).

 

So I reinstalled Win ME and used the DVDs to manually put back most of

my data. However, there are some registry entries (presets for a photo

program) that I need to restore to the new registry but I don't know

how to do this. I know how to use regedit to make copies of registry

keys from the C drive, but how do I get them from a DVD so I can then

add them to the new registry?

 

Any help will be much appreciated.

[Guest Joan Archer]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

I can't really help with your problem but one thing that springs to mind is

have you actually installed the photo program back into the system.

I don't think you can just copy registry entries for a program you have to

actually install the program to make it work.

 

I could be completely wrong here but they are my thoughts, but wait until

one of the experts see your post and they'll be able to put you right <g>

Joan

 

<carl5544@aol.co.uk> wrote in message

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> I recently had to reinstall Windows ME. I had previously backed up the

> hard disk (by setting it as a slave in another machine and

> transferring everything to DVDs) and had hoped to restore everything

> by simply copying everything from the DVDs back onto the same hard

> disk. But for some reason it wouldn't boot ("invalid system disk"

> message).

>

> So I reinstalled Win ME and used the DVDs to manually put back most of

> my data. However, there are some registry entries (presets for a photo

> program) that I need to restore to the new registry but I don't know

> how to do this. I know how to use regedit to make copies of registry

> keys from the C drive, but how do I get them from a DVD so I can then

> add them to the new registry?

>

> Any help will be much appreciated.

[Guest carl5544@aol.co.uk]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

Yes, I have reinstalled the program, but unusually the presets are all

located in the registry and nowhere else. So I have to restore that

part of my old registry to be able to use the presets.

[Guest John John]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

You may be able to do this with older versions or Registrar by

Resplendence software. We usually refer to this as Remote Registry

Editing. How well or not this works will depend on what files you have

to work with, improper backups or exported registry files will probaly

not be usable for the purpose. http://tucows.mundofree.com/preview/983.html

 

John

 

carl5544@aol.co.uk wrote:

> Yes, I have reinstalled the program, but unusually the presets are all

> located in the registry and nowhere else. So I have to restore that

> part of my old registry to be able to use the presets.

>

[Guest Mart]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

Very odd that you don't have access thru' the program, however my guess is

that you'd have difficulty attempting to extract anything from the

Registry's .dat files (user.dat etc) on the DVD - as JJ has mentioned

elsewhere on the thread. And I certainly wouldn't recommend transposing them

'wholesale' unless you really know what you are doing and especially without

backing-up the originals first. However, the rbxxx.cab files in the

Windows\sysbckup folder should be safe enough to get you going again using

scanreg /restore from a floppy if things really go pear shaped.

 

But, as it would appear to be a bit of an 'odd-ball' and possibly older

program, you *might* find that the presets are more likely to be located in

the win.ini or system.ini files, or even an .ini file associated with the

actual program itself. If so, you should find copies (of the first two) in

the Windows folder, the associated.ini file (if present) may also be located

in the Windows folder or could be in the folder associated with the

program - a search may be necessary.

 

At least the .ini files can be read (and edited) with a simple text editor

such as Notepad.

 

Good luck - you may need it <g>

 

Mart

 

 

 

<carl5544@aol.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Yes, I have reinstalled the program, but unusually the presets are all

> located in the registry and nowhere else. So I have to restore that

> part of my old registry to be able to use the presets.

>

[Guest carl5544@aol.co.uk]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

Many thanks to everyone for the advice. JJ, I downloaded the

Resplendent Registrar program you recommended and it did the trick. I

opened the old user.dat file from the DVD in Resplendent Registrar,

and then I was able to copy all the relevant registry keys and paste

them into the corresponding folder in the new registry. And now I have

all my old presets back.

 

Thanks again to everyone.

[Guest carl5544@aol.co.uk]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

Further to the above: it was the system.dat file (not user.dat) that I

got the registry keys back from.

[Guest John John]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

carl5544@aol.co.uk wrote:

> Many thanks to everyone for the advice. JJ, I downloaded the

> Resplendent Registrar program you recommended and it did the trick. I

> opened the old user.dat file from the DVD in Resplendent Registrar,

> and then I was able to copy all the relevant registry keys and paste

> them into the corresponding folder in the new registry. And now I have

> all my old presets back.

>

> Thanks again to everyone.

 

You're welcome, thanks for the follow up.

 

John

[Guest Joan Archer]

Re: Adding to the registry from a disc

 

Glad you got things working again, told you the experts would sort you out

<g>

Joan

 

<carl5544@aol.co.uk> wrote in message

news:bc5d288d-83de-46bd-a2bb-fd8c6486dc3c@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> Many thanks to everyone for the advice. JJ, I downloaded the

> Resplendent Registrar program you recommended and it did the trick. I

> opened the old user.dat file from the DVD in Resplendent Registrar,

> and then I was able to copy all the relevant registry keys and paste

> them into the corresponding folder in the new registry. And now I have

> all my old presets back.

>

> Thanks again to everyone.