You can do a File | Load Hive in Regedit on the old NTUSER.DAT for that particular user and then get to the appropriate registry keys (see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx) and then export them and modify them in Notepad to match the current system and then merge those, which would give you the account parameters, but it won't give you the passwords back. You might be able to use PassSniff (search for something like that, its free, but I forget the URL and exact name) to retrieve the passwords.

steve

"bill" wrote in message ...
Ok, but if I could access the registry is there a way to get the account
settings?

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
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See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4 and www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

You cannot import the account information, as that is stored in the
registry, which is not easily accessible. So you need to search for *.dbx
(the files are hidden) on the old drive and then when you find the directory
of dbx files, then go to File | Import | Messages in OE and point to that
directory. That will get the messages back, but you will have to set up the
accounts anew.

steve

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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[I'm gonna let Fisherman Bruce answer this one...]

bill wrote:
The motherboard on my old PC has blown but the HDD is ok and can be
hooked
up to another PC. I would like to import all my OE6 mail and accounts
settings from the recovered HDD onto OE6 on the other PC. Can anyone
point
me at a link that documents that process please. All my searches so far
(which I admit have been hasty) are pointing at slightly different
processes.
Thanks for any help.

Bill