Open Regedit and clip Help. Go to "hives, importing registry keys from" and
read it very, very carefully.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM

"fcampbel" wrote in message
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I have a related question. WindowsXP OE6, I just completely restored
my HD to factory condition. (it was the original HD but I replaced it
with a larger one which recently refused to boot after uninstalling
some IBM software) I am reinstalling all my old software and data from
the HD. I already imported all my emails and folders. I don't want to
retype all of my mail rules. Since I cannot to export them because I
cannot boot the HD which they are on, is there a way to copy them from
one disk to another so OE can find them when I use the import tool?