Ok so I had a solid state drive doing nothing but booting the operating system (windows 7), but out of no where the file system for my boot drive couldn't be recognized??? well anyway it wasn't bad because all I had to do was re install the os, and switch the registry values back over. Now none of my programs that I had before are being recognized as installed, which is expected, but what I was wondering is, is there any way to recover my registry, or repair it in such a way that i don't have to manually install everything I had before?