How to transfer setting from an infected drive

[JohnF]

Running XP Home on Dell Dimension 4600 . The original HD was corrupted with
trojan. McAfee shows buffer overrun problems and VUNDO trojan.

I've now installed new HD with XP Home and NIS 2007, with all updates. I'm
ready to:

1. Install old HD as slave.

2. Run virus scan.

3. Transfer documents and other files.

4. Transfer settings, such as accounts, favorites, E-mail, contacts, desktop
configuration, etc.

Is there an easy, safe way to do step four given that the old drive isn't
capable of running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard?

JohnF

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Running XP Home on Dell Dimension 4600 . The original HD was
corrupted with trojan. McAfee shows buffer overrun problems and VUNDO
trojan.
I've now installed new HD with XP Home and NIS 2007, with all
updates. I'm ready to:

1. Install old HD as slave.

2. Run virus scan.

3. Transfer documents and other files.

4. Transfer settings, such as accounts, favorites, E-mail, contacts,
desktop configuration, etc.

Is there an easy, safe way to do step four given that the old drive
isn't capable of running the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard?

JohnF

No, not that I know of. You might check out
http://www.forensit.com/index.htm - but I don't know that this will work for
you. Note that a lot of your profile information is actually in the
registry, not the file system. The built-in FAST won't help you access
stuff on a slave drive (or from any profile you aren't actually *loading* at
the time. You can copy out favorites, and anything that's in a file/folder,
but I don't
think you can get the settings. There may be ways around this, but I'd
probably just re-create the profile; it's likely faster.

In the future -

Don't store data in the profile folder - point My Documents elsewhere (such
as C:\data) and put your e-mail files there as well (such as
c:\data\outlook, or c:\data\oe). I don't like storing anything in a
profile's default folders when I can easily point it elsewhere.

For help with your mail data/contacts, try posting in a group for that
client - microsoft.public.outlook or
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress, depending on what
you're doing.

You might consider getting something like the Acronis home/desktop imaging
products and start doing them regularly/automatically.....it's not
expensive, you could probably keep your 'slave' drive in your PC for this
purpose, and it would save you a lot of grief if you were to get reinfected
with something nasty.