Restoring Registry

[Ares6735]

I recently reformatted 2 of my hard drives and did a fresh install of Windows. I moved everything I wanted onto a folder in my 3rd hard drive and backed up my registry with Registry Repair Wizard 2006. Now when I backed up the registry I was running in Windows XP HOME Edition and now the new install is with Windows XP PRO Edition and if I try to use Registry Repair Wizard 2006 to reinstate the old registry, Windows won't load when I restart and I am assuming it is because it is a cross between the OS. So I am wondering if I can get Windows XP Home and do a full install of that, is it likely that the registry will work fine reinstated then?

PS: I had to do a full install with Windows XP Pro because it was the only full version I had. Also, I didn't realize that Windows has a method of backing up the registry itself... that probably would have been better, but hey you learn something about computers every day right?

 

[Osiris]

so you backed up everything to another hdd, backed up the registry and then reformatted and then reinstalled the backup of the older xp registry?

 

[ECTech]

If you were to do a clean install of XP Home...you shouldn't have any trouble getting all of your data back up and running.

 

[Ares6735]

Ok good, I am hoping that backup of the registry I made while running in XP Home will work when I do a clean install of XP Home.

To be clear... I backed up my data on my largest HD and then I backed up the registry after that with that Registry Wizard 2006 and then I formatted my 30Gb and 80Gb Hard drives and I then did a clean install of Windows XP Pro because it was the only full version I had. However, I am hoping the old registry will work if I try to reinstall it on a clean install of Windows XP Home, which I will try to get a copy of today.

 

[Osiris]

dont import your old registry, there is no need for that, all you are looking for is problems when doing that

 

[Ares6735]

Ok... well I am going to do an install of Windows XP Home anyway... if I dont restore the registry then I have about 200 things I have to reinstall, reconfigure, redownload, etc so what else do I do? It will be a clean install and format anyway, so if it creates problems I can allways format and start fresh again...