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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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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 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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