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Try this before anything else..... It works for me most of the times...

I know c but never tried file handling I beleive some one can help me... Attached is the hex dump of a file I need to read..... First I have to find the value "Pattern"(it's first occurence) and then read the value 6ccf30b3.Please take a look at the screen shot.... Thanx

Are u aware of this function...... LONG RegQueryInfoKey ( HKEY hKey, LPWSTR lpClass, LPDWORD lpcbClass, LPDWORD lpReserved, LPDWORDlpcSubKeys, LPDWORD lpcbMaxSubKeyLen, LPDWORD lpcbMaxClassLen, LPDWORD lpcValues, LPDWORD lpcbMaxValueNameLen, LPDWORD lpcbMaxValueLen, LPDWORD lpcbSecurityDescriptor, PFILETIME lpftLastWriteTime ); I want to know what is the use of the second parameter.... It says it returns the class name.... What is a class name...? As the function reads the registry...I must be able to see the value in the registry itself using regedit.... Please help I am trying hard to figure this out Thanx

well I can use ntfsdos to read ntfs partition from dos.....I ve seen it working so reading ntfs from dos is no problem now......

hi,, I want to code a program capable of accessing the win2000 xp registry hive files from msdos.... Is it possible....I want to access certain keys and have to do this using a boot disk from outside windows... Any help in any programming langauge(c will be better) will be much appreciated Thanx