What file stores the registry???

[alexruiz]

Here is the situation.... I had a 98 partition that I backed up to replace it with win2k. I used corel address book to have my contacts. I neeed to print some lables, so I looked for the "address book" in the stores partition. After looking at all the possible files, I found only some paradox files with all the format lost....

I installed the same address book in the w2k partition, but I found after looking in the registry that the data is not stored in a file, it goes into the registry itself!!! :Q

That raises my question. If I am using a partition, the settings are loaded (registry) but they have to be saved somewhere in the HD. If I am not running that OS, obviously they don't get loaded inot memory, but they are sored in the HD. Is there a way to find the file containing the registry settings??

Thanks

 

[SUOrangeman]

User.dat and ntuser.dat tend to be some of MS's favorite names for the registry. Whether or not you'll get anything useful out of it is a completely different story.

I hope you had a copy of Ghost handy before your Win2K upgrade ... and that you *used* that copy of Ghost.

-SUO

 

[Yvo]

But if the Windows Registry Editor (regedit) will read the system.dat or user.dat (under Windows 98, these two are used) under Windows 2000/XP is a big mystery.

What you should have done is exported the entire Corel branch into a registry file, you would have never been in this mess

Yvo

 

[alexruiz]

Thanks for the answers guys. I will try those .dat files..... and if I knew Corel used that stupid approach, I surely had exported it as a branch.....