mm I came across this webpage that you may like to look at:::
http://applicationbistro.com/bistro/...&limitstart=10

it on a script uses WMI to get a list of all available drive letters and
prints out the first and last available drive letters. These drive letters
can be used for mapping a remote file share, mounting an external drive,
etc.



"mm" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:04:59 -0400, Bill Blanton
wrote:

On 10/13/2010 12:50, none wrote:
Was wondering if there is a way to read an old registry (user.dat&
system.dat from 9 years ago).
I need certain entries from that time but don't know how to scan the
registry.

Boot to DOS and enter
regedit /?
for the command syntax.

Say your old user.dat is in C:\Windows\Temp, and you want to export the
HKCU\Software key to the file C:\MyExport.txt.

regedit /R:C:\Windows\Temp\user.dat /E C:\MyExport.txt
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software

(I doublespaced the above for readability. Single space the command)

Wow, this is great to know.

Yet all the windows reg editors insist on using the registry that's in
use at the time. How come none (none?) allow one to specify the
address like the dos version does?

There are other occasions when one would want to examine a registry,
like if one had a copy of a partition, but not easily bootable, and
wanted to find out what an entry was, that seems fouled up in the
registry in use.