Determining what computer a loose hard drive was previously installed

DrivingMiss7of9 · 28 Jan 2020

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I have a loose hard drive that came from an unknown computer that was in a Hive of computers.

I cannot determine which computer the hard drive came from but it was apparently the Boot drive for what I think was a Windows 10 installation.

What I am wondering is if there is any data on that hard drive that might contain the System Information so that I could view it to determine which it may have come from based on other data such as Processor, RAM, Graphics card that was in that particular machine.

Thank you

dalchina · 29 Jan 2020

Hi, just considering the drivers, you can do this:

Display information about all drivers in an offline operating system.
Dism /image:s:\ /Get-Drivers

where s: is the drive letter of your offline image (change as necessary).

You can get the computer name with an offline registry edit (research how to do that):
Computername registry key