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I have my hard drive from my old workstation, I did not export the PuTTY session from my old machine. I am in a situation that I am not able to boot from it, but I have it as a slave drive.
Is there any way I can scavenge the PuTTY sessions from that hard drive?
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PuTTY settings are shared in HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the registry, so you can export these to a file for use elsewhere. To export, run RegEdit.exe and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY.
You can also import the registry key and value interactively: Click on Start -> Run -> regedit -> Click File menu -> Click Import menu-item ->select the putty-registry. reg -> click on Import, to import the PuTTY sessions to the destination windows machine.
The PuTTY sessions are stored in Windows registry in key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SimonTatham\PuTTY
If you have a raw file system access only, you have to use some tool that can decode the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry file C:\Users\username\ntuser.dat.
One freeware tool that can do this is MiTeC Windows Registry Recovery.
For details on the process see my guide How do I transfer my settings to another computer, when source computer is not running anymore?
The guide is for transferring settings of WinSCP client, but will work for PuTTY too. Just substitute key path Software/Martin Prikryl/WinSCP 2 with Software/SimonTatham/PuTTY.
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