Windows 10: I have hundreds of old photos stored on an old hard drive, is it possible to gain access to...

I have hundreds of old photos stored on an old hard drive, is it possible to gain access to all of them at once or do i have to gain access to each one of them seperately? as that would take very long. Thanks in advance.

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Is it possible to open the registry stored on an old hard drive?

Can a command be written that opens/edits (%windir%\regedit.exe) a Win7 registry on an old hard drive without it reverting to the new registry instead? In other words drive J: instead of Drive C?

I still haven't given up hope of opening Corel Photo Shop 4.0 and running it on Windows 10

Especially since a companion program from the same setup disk works on the new computer.

I've developed the theory that there are keys (I hope that's the right term) that Corel needs in the Win 7 Registry that can be copied and pasted onto win10's registry that point to a missing .dll file that I've identified. The old computer was scrapped and recycled except for the still-working hard drive.

The problem becomes opening the registry off of an old but still working hard drive that's been turned into a usb drive plugged into my win10 machine.

The registry as I understand it is stored in Windows\System32\Config\ but I have no idea how to read what's in that file. I've even thought of searching for old registry backups on the old drive in case they might be easier to read and copy.

Old machine is an HP desktop that 10 1/2 years old bought in 2011 that died last month.

The only workable piece of it left is the hard drive.

I had Wim XP on it, that was upgraded to Win7

The software worked perfectly on Win7 even though it was written in 1997

The new machine is a new HP desktop running

 

Connection of old hard drive to dowload files.

I have Hard drive from old computer which I wish to connect to my Laptop so that I can download files. The old Hard Drive has Windows XP the Laptop Windows 10. I have a Hard Drive Connection kit which I have connected through a USB port but I get noe response
from my Lenovo G505s Laptop. How can I gain Access?.The Hard Drive is a Maxtor 320GB HDD DiamondMax 21.

 

Accessing an old hard drive with an old version of Windows on it.

I am running Windows 10 964 BIT)

I want to access the data on an old hard drive that still has an old version of windows on it. (I have a docking facility.)

How do I do that without the two operating systems conflicting?