Open old hive

[Mark Minnie]

Sorry in advance if this question has been answered, but I could not find
the answer through a newsgroup search on groups.google.com.

I had a complete Win 2K meltdown. The computer could not even boot to safe
mode. I reinstalled windows on this existing drive into another folder.
The original install was in c:\winnt and the reinstall is in c:\winnt2. I
can now boot to Win2K, but I want to see some old registry settings from the
crashed version of Win 2K. How can I view the registry of the old OS? I
tried to open a hive using REGEDT32 and browsed to
c:\winnt\system32\config\software. but I received a message "Registry Editor
could not accomplish the requested operation."

Help!

-- Mark

 

[Mark V]

Sorry in advance if this question has been answered, but I could
not find the answer through a newsgroup search on
groups.google.com.

I had a complete Win 2K meltdown. The computer could not even
boot to safe mode. I reinstalled windows on this existing drive
into another folder. The original install was in c:\winnt and the
reinstall is in c:\winnt2. I can now boot to Win2K, but I want to
see some old registry settings from the crashed version of Win 2K.
How can I view the registry of the old OS? I tried to open a
hive using REGEDT32 and browsed to

Using the menu: Registry, Load Hive... option I presume?

c:\winnt\system32\config\software. but I received a message
"Registry Editor could not accomplish the requested operation."

* Corrupt hive file on disk
* damaged file (disk error)
* file is Read-only
* file and or container are restricted (ACLs) for the currently
logged account.
* some/all of the above for the matching .LOG file

Presuming a corrctable condition, copy the hive file from the old
installation elsewhere and then confirm it's attributes and ACLs,
then try again with regedt32 ... Load Hive.