Guest Posted February 7, 2001 I wanted to manually copy my registry onto another hard drive.... for backup purposes... what file is it? Also, it's just good to know. Thanks! Share this post Link to post
Down8 0 Posted February 7, 2001 It would be nice to know, b/c I have forgotten, but for your purposes, couldn't you just export your entire registry with RegEdit.exe? -bZj Share this post Link to post
Guest Posted February 7, 2001 yeah, I COULD, but I still would like to know which file it is... just so that I can bakcup on the fly whenever i change a setting in it. anybody? Share this post Link to post
jaywallen 0 Posted February 7, 2001 Which OS? If Win9X, then I think it's USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT. If W2K, the registry consists of several hives: DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM, USERDIFF, and SYSTEM.ALT. Regards, Jim Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted February 7, 2001 just go into regedit, select My Computer, go to REGISTRY, select EXPORT. [This message has been edited by EddiE314 (edited 07 February 2001).] Share this post Link to post
miku 0 Posted February 8, 2001 Windows 2000: Go to C:\winnt\system32\config All the file there contains information about your registry and your hardware devices... If you want the registry only. Copy SOFTWARE file. If you want the hardware configs, use SYSTEM ARC Share this post Link to post
