Recovering printer profiles

Hi MGs,

I've tried asking Prof. Google, with limited results. So I am back to ask the pros.

Basically, started to get BSOD, codes hinted towards a hard drive problem. Was able to get it all backed up, and then the drive died. Almost back to 100%, but there are these little thins that still have to be tweaked, which includes the various printers I used.

Short of re-entering all of them in again, is there a way to (simply) restore those profiles into the "Printers and Faxes" folder on the Start Menu?

Running XP-Pro, SP3.

Thanks.

 

I don't know what OS your running but this might work
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25311
or Window easy transfer.

If not (depending on what OS) those transfer my pc prgrams will do it.. like PC Relocator, Desktop DNA, etc.

 

Thanks Major Attitude.

Should've given more information. These are all network printers, as opposed to a straight forward plug-n-play.

It's not like my fingers are gonna break or I'm a lazy sack o' pooh, but I'd have to print out the configuration pages for all of them and manually "Add a new printer" for them all. They're in different locations depending on where I'm working, (back hallway printer, 3rd floor printer, blah, blah, blah), and since I had the entire drive backed up, I was wondering if it was a simple copy/paste. Some of what I'd read suggested going into the registry and copying those values, which made me stop right there.

Does that help? Am I explaining it correctly???

 

Did you look a MS print migrator?
It will work on workstations (XP)

 

Thanks foogoo.

This is what happens when you try to help a noob. The back-up was made using Retrospect, which I guess is now Roxio Retrospect. I have to find the file(s) in the application to restore back to their original location. The files themselves are all in an .rdb format on the drive.