Maelstorm Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maelstorm Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aadipa Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 O&O BlueCon also does the job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepnmojo Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Smurf Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 But its commercial, so check out the free variant - BartPE.Thank you very much for adding that link, it is an invaluable tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 Only problem is if you lend it to people, they tend to not give it back.Yes, ...how true! jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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