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Can you post the file?<br />
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Sounds like it is not a valid reg file
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Can you post the file?

Sounds like it is not a valid reg file

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Is the old hive Windows 7 as well?
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jmarkfoley--I assume mykey.reg is now located on the new drive, correct?. &nbsp;<br />
But fireandsalt has raised a good point.
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jmarkfoley--I assume mykey.reg is now located on the new drive, correct?.  
But fireandsalt has raised a good point.

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McKnife: That did the trick! I simply had to go in and change the keyname I loaded under to the actual target keyname (in this case SOFTWARE), an they loaded fine.
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McKnife: That did the trick! I simply had to go in and change the keyname I loaded under to the actual target keyname (in this case SOFTWARE), an they loaded fine.

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I've reinstalled Windows 7 on a new drive. I want to import a registry key and subvalues from the old drive. I can successfully load the old hive and export the desired key to a .reg file. But when I try to import that to the new registry I get the message:<br />
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Cannot import mykey.reg: Error accessing the registry.<br />
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I get this message whether or not I run regedit as administrator. How to I import my key?
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I've reinstalled Windows 7 on a new drive. I want to import a registry key and subvalues from the old drive. I can successfully load the old hive and export the desired key to a .reg file. But when I try to import that to the new registry I get the message:

Cannot import mykey.reg: Error accessing the registry.

I get this message whether or not I run regedit as administrator. How to I import my key?

how to import registry key?

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