Windows Mapped Network Drives from Old Hard Drive

[kjv1611]

Here's the basic situation:
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[li]Laptop running Windows XP Pro SP3[/li]
[li]Old hard drive was dying, but I was able to backup the entire drive to a spare just before it kicked the bucket.[/li]
[li]Installed new drive into laptop, installed Windows, etc.[/li]
[li]Now I see there are no mapped drives.[/li]
[li]Is there a way I can find things such as Mapped network drives or previously visited network locations to populate what shows in "My Network Places"?[/li]
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I found at least one reference of somehow loading the registry hive from the external hard drive, and then pulling the registry keys for network places. If that's the way I have to go, then hopefully I'll sort that out okay and go that route. But for what shows under "My Network Places", it'd be nice to fix so it's populated as it was before.

(We were going to reinstall Windows XP anyway on the old machine due to various issues before realizing the hard drive was dying).

Thanks for any insights. Apparently I've never tried to do this in the past or else I've totally forgotten.

"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57

 

[edfair]

I can't recall ever having to do anything to see drives in network places when I've added a new machine (or load) to the mix. They seem to pop up on their own once the network drivers and F&PS is active although it sometimes takes a while.
So far as the mapping, I've always done that manually after the rebuild.



Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[kjv1611]

Thanks. Yeah, I later found out we apparently don't do mapped drives as a policy. So I guess it doesn't really matter for now. Thanks for the thoughts. I've added a couple of shortcuts to likely to visit network locations for this one user for the time being to suffice.

"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:57