Accessing the registry of a slave drive

[Andy-S]

Does anyone know of any utilities or methods that will allow me to access the registry of a slave drive.

I want to add the drive as a secondary drive and extract the software and hardware keys from the registry.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Andy

[RWSchlatter]

Hi !
J do not understand what you mean with "...the registry of a slave drive...". The registry is not split among different drives.

Do you intend to move installed software from the original place (usually "C:\Program Files") to the new drive ?
If yes, e.g. PowerQuests Partition Magic product comes with a DriveMapper utility that will scan the registry and switch dirve letters in strings. Intended use: after creating new partitions that rename drive letters.
Sorry J cannot give you a freeware / shareware tip.

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Regards - Richard

[Andy-S]

Richard,

I have a couple of dozen drives and I want to determine what software is installed on them. I want to pull this information from the registry of the drive (these drives were previously the master drives from systems we have). The plan is to connect the drives as secondary drives and read the registry information. Unfortunately I don't know if this is feasible.

Any help you can provide would be welcomed.

Thanks
Andy

[RWSchlatter]

J should think this is possible: use Regedit in command line mode to unload the contents using options /L and /R (see below). J remember to have seen a thread in this discussion forum, with a reference to a shareware application that would give you interactive GUI access to a different set of Registry files.
<pre>regedit.exe [options] [filename]

filename Import .reg file into the registry
/s Silent, i.e. hide confirmation box when importing files
/e Export registry file
e.g. regedit /e file.reg HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT
/L:system Specify the location of the system.dat to use
/R:user Specify the location of the user.dat to use
/C Compress [filename] (Windows 98)</pre>

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Regards - Richard

[Andy-S]

Thanks Richard,

I will give it a try and let you know.

Cheers
Andy

[RWSchlatter]

Hi Andy !

concerning third party tools:
check the Registry Downloads page on this site (link in left border)
have a look at Resplendence Registrar. The full product has an option that lets you open Registry files if they are "RegEdt32 compatible".

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Regards - Richard

[Andy-S]

Richard,

Thanks for the help. The Resplendance Registrar utility looks to be ideal. I have downloaded a free trial version which seems to fulfill all my requirements. I will play with it for a few days and if it indeed meets all the requirements I will purchase a copy. At $49.95 it is relatively inexpensive.

Thanks again for all your help.