How to install the Recovery Console
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You can install the Recovery Console on your
computer to make it
available if you cannot restart Windows. You can then select the
Recovery
Console option from the list of available operating systems during
startup.
Install the Recovery Console on important servers and on the
workstations of IT
personnel. This article describes how to install the Recovery
Console to your
Microsoft Windows XP-based computer. To install the Recovery
Console, you must
be logged on as an administrator.
Although you can run the
Recovery
Console by starting directly from the Windows XP CD, it is generally
more
convenient to set it up as a startup option on your startup menu. To
run the
Recover Console directly from the CD, see the "How to use the Recovery
Console" section.
To
install the Recovery Console, follow these steps:
Alternatively, you can use a Universal Naming
Convention
(UNC)-established connection to install the Recovery Console from a
network
share point.
Note You may receive an error message
that is similar the
following:
Setup cannot continue because the version of
Windows on your computer is newer than the version on the CD.
If this
problem occurs, click the following article number to view the
article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
898594
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898594/
)
You receive an error message if you try to install the
Recovery Console on a Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer
How
to use the Recovery Console
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You can enable and disable services, format
drives, read and
write data on a local drive (including drives that are formatted to
use the
NTFS file system), and perform many other administrative tasks. The
Recovery
Console is particularly useful if you have to repair your computer
by copying a
file from a disk or CD-ROM to your hard disk, or if you have to
reconfigure a
service that is preventing your computer from starting correctly.
If
you cannot start your computer, you can run the Recovery Console
from the
Microsoft Windows XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM. This
article
describes how to perform this task.
After Windows XP is
installed on
your computer, to start the computer and use the Recovery Console
you require
the Windows XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM.
For
more information about how to create Startup disks for
Windows XP (they are not included with Windows XP), click the
following article
number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
310994
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994/
)
Obtaining Windows XP Setup boot disks
Note To start the computer from the Windows XP CD-ROM, you
must
configure the basic input/output system (BIOS) of the computer to
start from
your CD-ROM drive.
To run the Recovery Console from the
Windows XP
startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM, follow these steps:
How
to use the Recovery Console command prompt
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When you use the Recovery Console, you are working
at a special
command prompt instead of the ordinary Windows command prompt. The
Recovery
Console has its own command interpreter. To enter this command
interpreter, you
are prompted by Recovery Console to type the local Administrator
password.
Click to select any options that are required
to start
the computer from the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted.
For a
list of
commands that are available in Recovery Console, type recovery
console commands or help at
the command
prompt, and then press ENTER.
For information about a
specific
command, type help
commandname at the command prompt, and
then press ENTER.
When the Recovery Console starts, you can press F6
to
install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver, in case you need such a
driver to
access the hard disk. This prompt works the same as it does during
installation
of the operating system.
The Recovery Console takes several
seconds
to start. When the Recovery Console menu appears, a numbered list of
the
Windows installations on the computer appears. (Generally, only
c:\Windows
exists.) Press a number before you press ENTER, even when only one
entry
appears. If you press ENTER without selecting a number, the computer
restarts
and begins the process again.
When you see the prompt for
%SystemRoot% (generally C:\Windows), you can start using the
available commands
for the Recovery Console.
More TOPICS ON USING RECOVERY CONSOLE:
Visit the site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654
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Hi there, here's the step by step procedure for reformatting.
1. insert the recovery disk first to your cd rom
2. restart pc and keep on tapping the F12 key
3. once you are prompted for boot options select your cd/dvd rom drive
your computer will now boot up from your cd rom and will initialize the setup.
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SOURCE: formatting
Formatting the drive will remove the OS - If you don't have OS installation discs don't format the drive, you'll be left with a useless machine.
SOURCE: not able to format my laptop
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