Well Guys I am Blown away, You certainly know your stuff on this forum, not that is a great recommendation coming from Lamer like Me, but it is a response of appreciation from ME - non the less! The Variable within the Set CMD reports CDROM1=F: & CDROM2=G: along with other set variables. All I need to do now is instruct the user to insert the OS Install CD, allow it to spin up or use Horst Schaeffers dready as a check maybe, the variable with if exist will locate the inserted OS CD (With a files Check) then from a Wbat menu (front end) copy the files to a folder on my HDD to compile a bootable recovery console CD, the fileset is obtainable from within the Bootdisk\ folder on the OS Install CD. I have acquired the Win2K Gold .IMG files (OEM) which reputedly by-passes any XP Logon password so this could be an option also. Some could say why not use BartsPE or UBCD well yes but this is a quick small bootdisk varient that would replace the floppy Boot disk for the Recovery console as many PC users do not have a floppy drive anymore or floppies take an age to load. Batch files could also be written to try to repair the reg or copy files etc to removeable media from RConsole etc. Barts & UBCD require quite a bit of setting up This essentially is background info for this posting, thanks guys! Regards, ispy