Well, I deleted my mint installation for windows 7 anyway :P Too many partitions.

Alright thanks to Superfly I have windows 7 ultimate running, but I have one more question. Is it ok to let the two partitions communicate? Or should I remove the drive letter to each non active...

Is it worth mentioning I have a folder from win 7 when I used Norton 360 called 'N360_BACKUP'? It is an extremely large folder, but I have absolutely no idea what is in it or how to open the files in...

Sent.

"Load hive" is greyed out when HKEY_CURRENT_USER is selected. If I try to use "Load hive" in either HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_USERS after gives me "Cannot Load (hive destination): Error while...

Interesting note, so I have the windows 8 bootloader set up so that if I hit Mint it restarts & boots into grub, but grub displays mint and Windows 7 + Windows 7 Recovery. I'll try to upload at the...

I do have this laptop dual booted with Mint, so that won't be a problem. Sadly I do not know which edition of Windows 7 I had. Its been a pretty long time ago since I used it. Also, I do have a...

16966This?

I'll see if I can upload the SOFTWARE hive.
EDIT: FYI the windows.old is default, I didn't change that but i'll try.
Also, I tried straight up uploading it but it says the file is in...

Sources folder?
& is it safe to upload a registry hive?

Thanks, I'll take a look at this.
EDIT:
Doesn't work :I
It shows 4 things,
Product Name: "Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview"
Product ID: (random numbers)
Installed Key: (the key I'm assuming is...

Also, I cannot use the 0 key to open up the HDDRECOVERY, but I can still see it & view the files in it. I have used bcdedit to try to get it a bootable partition (I used openbcd as a template for it...

I did look in the windows.old registry hive (all of them) and also scanned them with a key finder, but those are from my previous windows 10 installation. Like I said, I have installed windows 10...

Backstory: I broke my windows 7 installation awhile ago and went to linux, without deleting the broken installation. Later when I discovered windows 10 I decided to go and use it but it broke, so I...