"Windows.old.old" (Help requested)

Can you zip the Software hive and upload it somewhee I can grab it from?

Look under the sources folder for an OEM folder.

Roger said:

Did you test Produkey?
I just installed WSCC on Win10-- 10049.
WSCC is a frontend for Nirsoft Utilities, Sysinternals Utilities, and Windows Utilities and contains Produkey as one of 264 utilities in that bundle.
I ran Produkey in Win10-10049 and it works as well as it did in all previous systems.
One of the first packages I install on a new system.
Find it here.............. http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/index.php

Interesting, I had a look at that app. and checked it on Virustotal - it came up with PUP detections:

Code:

SHA256:     da90af24398a12d6fb20215b0219d1f6383ae032576da6067cff35cb7a2326e8
File name:     ProduKey.exe
Detection ratio:     3 / 57
Analysis date:     2015-04-18 12:14:41 UTC ( 0 minutes ago ) 

SHA256:     080cb46952b5fbce885f8645e406d28d0e813ecfbfc2aeb8c07a071ed4daebe0
File name:     ShowKeyPlus.exe
Detection ratio:     0 / 57
Analysis date:     2015-04-18 12:12:46 UTC ( 0 minutes ago )

The recovery image you posted has a sources folder....

Upload the hive to Onedrive or somthing and share - PM me the link.

BTW: I think the dot in windows.old is what's causing the error - remove that and try again.

Seems you will have to copy it offline - i.e from a USB boot Windows or Linux ... If you can't find an OEM folder I'll PM you instructions - which edition of Windows 7 did you have?

- but let's see if what we can extract from the hive first.

Yup, upload as much as you can.

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 moment. Also, In HDDRECOVERY\BIN\ there is a file called GETKEYSTATE.EXE. It is unable to be opened though, as it crashes upon trying to open it. I'm guessing you have to boot the recovery, which I don't know how.

What are you trying to find in the hive? Also, it is 100MB. I have awful internet speed, it'll take awhile.

I found this folder, maybe this is what you were talking about.
Windows 10\RecoveryImage\OEMInformation
Windows 10 represents the C drive if I were in windows. I as unable to open this file in windows (access is denied) even in elevated cmd.

Err... I have SOFTWARE uploading in mediafire (via mint) and it was at two percent.. now its at zero. I'll try and copy it and then upload it, but likely tomorrow because it is late where I live.

Then don't worry about the full file... load the hive in regedit (select HKEY_CURRENT_USER first - then select file->load hive) give it a name like backup - export backup\Microsoft\Windows NT and upload just that.