January 23, 200521 yr Is there a recovery console replacement?Is one even available?The one that ships with WinXP is more or less useless if your machine will not boot and you need to do something special to recover it... Like running a batch file to restore the registry hives from a backup if the working copy gets corrupted, like what happened in my case...
January 23, 200521 yr WinPE is the perfect candidate for you - a bonus being its graphical.But its commercial, so check out the free variant - BartPE.Do post back on what you finally decided to use.
January 28, 200521 yr Author Now that was quite interesting. Boots straight off a CD and allows access to the HD where I can run most commands. Thanks for the tip.
January 28, 200521 yr I have a bootable cd also to do this. Only problem is if you lend it to people, they tend to not give it back. I ended up having a problem with one of my computers this week, and had to go dig up my original xp cd to boot in the recovery console. It is so limited, but it is still much better than the 2000 recovery console. Luckily, I was able to fix my problem from there.All in all though, don't give up the cd, or have multiple copies.
January 29, 200521 yr But its commercial, so check out the free variant - BartPE.Thank you very much for adding that link, it is an invaluable tool
January 29, 200521 yr Only problem is if you lend it to people, they tend to not give it back.Yes, ...how true! jaclaz
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