August 2003
Beginner
416 pages
12h 47m
English
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Repair and Recovery with the Recovery Console
If Windows won’t start, use the DOS-like Recovery Console to make repairs.
The Recovery Console is one of the last-ditch tools you can use if your Windows installation doesn’t start up at all. Before you resort to the Recovery Console, if Windows starts up, make sure you’ve already tried System Restore (especially if you’ve recently changed your hardware).
Tip
To run System Restore, choose Control Panel → Performance and Maintenance → System Restore.
If it won’t start, try running the Windows XP Setup Wizard from the installation CD and choosing its Repair option, or try starting Windows in Safe Mode.
If none of these easier paths work, you’re stuck using the DOS-like Recovery Console to figure out what’s wrong with Windows, your system or boot partition, or your disk’s master boot record (MBR). You can use its DOS-like commands to look at the files and folders that make up Windows, and possibly repair them. You can also repair the master boot record and boot sector.
Tip
You can configure the Recovery Console not to require the
administrator password on login. In the Registry Editor [Hack #68], set
the value of key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole\SecurityLevel
to 1.
Starting the Recovery Console
To start the Recovery Console, boot your computer from the Windows XP installation CD and follow the prompts. When it asks which Windows installation you want, type the number of the installation ...
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