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Transferring registry values

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I recently built a new rig and was wondering whether I could somehow transfer some registry values from my old HD into the new. If I installed WinXP on the new HD and ran the old one as a slave, could I somehow get into its registry and copy some values?

If that's not possible, I can try just booting up the old system and copying the reg values from there, but that hasen't been working for some reason. I took out the sound card, an optical drive, and one of the hard drives from the old rig and now it won't even load Windows. Any ideas of why this is happening?
 
The only reliable way to do something like this is to use Norton Ghost (or an equivalent product) to transfer the full HD image, then do a repair installation (or equivalent procedure) to reset the hardware part of the registry so the install will boot up correctly in the new system. You cannot just copy registry keys around between systems, generally.

I have no clue why your old system isn't booting up. Perhaps because you took the hard drive out?
 
Yeah I figured I would probably have to do something like that. I guess I will work on getting my old rig to boot up instead. Windows was installed on the old HD still in the machine, so unless the slave HD was necessary to boot up I don't think that would be the reason.
 
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