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The day before yesterday my hard drive has died (MBR could not be read; all attempts to recover it proved to be futile).

All right, I was smart enough to back up all my data regularly (that included even system partition, just in case), so I did not loose any thing. So far so good.

However, there is one thing that I may have lost. I am talking about tabs opened in Chrome (I belong to category of people who like to have a lot of tabs opened).

It looks like there is a way to recover the tabs (the whole profile, actually, but I care about tabs only). It is described here. It requires exporting/importing a specific registry key, though (copying the «User data» directory is not enough, I have tried). So here comes the question: can I access the registry of my Windows 7 backup?

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  • @Robert I am sorry, I don't know what to say. Apparently, I am not that tech savvy to understand what is written in that thread. WinPE stands for «Windows Preinstallation Environment». Do you think it has some thing in common with my problem? – S. N. Nov 16 '20 at 11:20
  • Windows PE is just a "lightweight Windows" that can be booted from the CD/USB stick. But that is totally irrelevant to you. Just concentrate on the part that deals with loading the registry hives from a offline Windows installation. For that it does not matter if you have a full Windows or a WinPE. – Robert Nov 16 '20 at 11:43
  • @Robert It has worked! Thank you very much for helping. – S. N. Nov 16 '20 at 13:51

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Please see How to modify a computer's offline registry from WINPE? for answer on how to extract keys from an off-line registry. The credit goes to Robert (please see comment feed).

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