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Follow these instructions to load the registry of the dead computer on your working one:<br />
<a href="http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm</a><br />
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Once you have the external hive loaded, select the &quot;System-Offline&quot; folder (if you used that name like the instructions) in regedit, and then do a search for &quot;ActiveComputerName&quot;, or you can browse to it going from the &quot;/System-Offline/CurrentCo<wbr />ntrolSet/C<wbr />ontrol/Com<wbr />puterName/<wbr />&quot;
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Follow these instructions to load the registry of the dead computer on your working one:
http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm [http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm]

Once you have the external hive loaded, select the "System-Offline" folder (if you used that name like the instructions) in regedit, and then do a search for "ActiveComputerName", or you can browse to it going from the "/System-Offline/CurrentControlSet/Control/ComputerName/"

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If it's been used on a domain recently, have you tried <br />
ping -a &lt;IPaddress&gt;<br />
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or check DNS for the lookups?<br />
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or if you can extract the registry, try here:<br />
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControl<wbr />Set\Contro<wbr />l\Computer<wbr />Name\Compu<wbr />terName\<br />
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If it's been used on a domain recently, have you tried
ping -a <IPaddress>

or check DNS for the lookups?

or if you can extract the registry, try here:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName\



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An easy way is to look at the C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.l<wbr />og file... &nbsp; You should be able to find a line that contains:<br />
&quot;DNS Name =&quot; &nbsp; &nbsp;The part immediately after that string is the Machine name<br />

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An easy way is to look at the C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log file...   You should be able to find a line that contains:
"DNS Name ="    The part immediately after that string is the Machine name


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I am able to get the hard drive of the system mounted to another system as the slave drive, but since the drive won't boot can't get into Windows to do a hostname command or check the System Properties.<br />
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I was wondering if there is a way to find out the hostname by the file/folder structure. Is there an INI file perhaps in the Windows structure where it is written into a file?
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I am able to get the hard drive of the system mounted to another system as the slave drive, but since the drive won't boot can't get into Windows to do a hostname command or check the System Properties.

I was wondering if there is a way to find out the hostname by the file/folder structure. Is there an INI file perhaps in the Windows structure where it is written into a file?

Find Windows Hostname if PC Cannot Boot

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.