Hi,

I just updated someone’s old Compaq from 98SE to 2000. This went well, but the new OE6 is devoid of address book, dbx files, and account settings. Before I up-dated, I cloned the disk over to a spare, so nothing is gone permanently.

I can grab the .dbx, and .wab files fine, but I need to have a way to get the account settings, and import them into the new 2000. I know that in XP we can export a certain .reg value and merge it into the new box, and the account settings will be established.

Does anyone know how I can grab 98SE’s settings and merge them into 2000 (from my static cloned drive?

Thanks for any help.

Packrat1947

Go here for step-by-step instructions. Worked for me.

http://www.iopus.com/guides/oe-backup.htm

note - may have to move the clone back to a spare disk on a spare computer and boot to it to get the original REG entries...

scratch that - REG.EXE may allow you to get them from cloned DAT files - the registry - in DOS mode via Boot Floppy... read up on it.

HTH

Edited August 16, 200818 yr by submix8c