old windows registery on D: drive

EL_Loco

I've photoshop installed on a HD disk that doesn't boot anymore but can still be read from. I put in a new HD and installed windows.

When I go to what is now the drive and run the photoshop.exe it tells me the serial number is missing or invalid. I assume it's because the registry entry isn't present on my new OS.

I'm currently trying to open up the registry file off the drive and extract the keys I need. This is where I'm having a problem. How do you edit the old registry files?

I'm looking in \WINDOWS\system32\config
Dir list below:

20/11/2008  12:50           524,288 AppEvent.Evt
20/11/2008  14:54           524,288 DEF$$$$$.DEL
20/11/2008  14:54           270,336 default
20/11/2008  14:35           262,144 default.sav
16/09/2008  09:14            65,536 Internet.evt
20/11/2008  11:45            12,704 netlogon.ftl
20/11/2008  14:54           262,144 SAM
18/09/2007  15:23            65,536 SecEvent.Evt
20/11/2008  14:54           262,144 SECURITY
20/11/2008  12:50           262,144 security.sav
20/11/2008  14:54        23,592,960 SOF$$$$$.DEL
20/11/2008  14:54        23,056,384 software
20/11/2008  14:35        23,330,816 software.sav
20/11/2008  14:54         2,768,896 SYS$$$$$.DEL
20/11/2008  12:50           524,288 SysEvent.Evt
20/11/2008  14:54         2,744,320 system
20/11/2008  14:35         5,767,168 system.sav
15/08/2007  14:22    <DIR>          systemprofile
20/11/2008  14:35           262,144 userdiff
20/11/2008  14:50           262,144 userdifr

Alun

There are some shareware programs out there that will read registry .DAT files on disk that come from other computers.

http://lastbit.com/arv/default.asp is one of them, and you can download a demo that is good for 30 days.