On 24-4-2012 7:23, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> On 4/23/2012 10:18 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> On 23/04/2012 6:09 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>>> Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? Still a lot of shit on the old
>>> machine I use every day, since its not transferred to the new machine
>>> yet. :(
>>
>> Can you physically remove the HDD from your old m/c and connect it to
>> the new one via a usb adaptor?
>> If so, easy peasy.
>>
> May have to. The problem is, this was the boot drive, so since you can't
> read the registry, that I know of, unless its in plain text, what little
> I "could" get from the drive isn't much.

There is a copy of the registry somewhere. So you can reinstall that 
even if the current one is corruct.
At least my brother has done that for me once and apparently regularly 
doing it for other people as well.

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