My Hard-drive crashed, how to I recover my VM?

[whattodo]

Last week, my Windows XP SP3 crashed. I had to re-format the hard-drive and re-install all my programs. It is now time to consider re-installing VirtualBox. Even though I did not have anything important stored within my VM, it would be faster for me if I could recover the data from my old drive (I made a copy of it before re-formatting it) rather than re-creating a new VM.

At the time of the crash I was using VirtualBox 4.1.18. I have a copy of my "C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\.VirtualBox" (with all its content [including snapshots]).

My questions are:

1. is it possible to recover my data?

2. if it is, how?

Thanks.

[stefan.becker]

Copy the whole backup of VBOX to the same directory should work, because all infos are stored in files.

[whattodo]

Thank you. It worked.

The only problem that I encountered was that I had inadvertently changed my computer name when re-installing XP. However, a quick editing of the main 'xml' file solved the problem.