Re: Recovery Console installed?

Justine wrote:
Thanks, Steve!! - Have had so many dilemmas since starting on this project that I wasn't sure which one you were referring to :-) -But I tried out your suggestion , and it does indeed appear to work to install the Recovery Console, with the expected bootup menu choice presented on successive reboots and the Recovery Console screen presented on demand.

You are very welcome Justine. I'm glad it worked for you. What puzzles me is why the installation of RC did not modify boot.ini correctly.

Stupid question: Can I also assume that if there is occasion to use it, it will deal with SP2?

Yes. I don't believe the RC was changed much if at all with SP2. For example I have used the RC booting an SP1 CD on a SP2 system with no issues. The installed RC should behave no differently after installing SP2.

Steve N.


"Steve N." wrote:
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Using notepad open up boot.ini and add this line to it under [operating systems] section:

C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

See if that works.

Also check the timeout value in boot.ini, the timeout may be too short to give you the option, some monitors don't sync up fast enough.

Steve N.


"David Webb" wrote:



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"Justine" <Justine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A06676B7-C889-4C5F-9DB7-5C53F7E9735B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Thanks for your response. - Yes, I am/was logged on with Administrative
| privileges. I re-read the article at the link supplied. Using the SP1 OEM
| Dell installation disc, I can indeed get to & I assume use the Recovery
| Console. However I want to do some work that requires the RC to be already
| installed, and this I cannot do with the OEM disk. Attempting to run the RC
| installation command (d:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons) simply provokes the
| message: "Setup cannot continue because the version of Windows on your
| computer is newer than the version on the CD..."

Why don't you try using the slipstreamed SP2 CD to install the RC?

| - (Given this error message,
| I also don't know whether or not it would even be safe to run the RC on my
| machine when I do get to it.)
|
|
| ("David Webb" wrote:
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| > Verify that you are logged on with Administrative privileges and then review
| > this article for installation and usage details:
| >
| > Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
| >
| > "Justine" <Justine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:97A612E8-C710-416D-9833-955FAD6CDE17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | Thanks for this info source! But the drop down list shows only
| > | "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition"/fastdetect/NoExecute=OptIn
| > | and Time to display list is set at 30 sec, Time to display recovery
options
| > | at 45 seconds, which seem adequate. - Since this apparently says that the
RC
| > | isn't installed, what can I do to get it installed? - w/thanks!
| > |
| > |
| > | "frodo@xxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
| > |
| > | > your boot.ini should have two entries now, one for XP, one for Recovery
| > | > Console. To check this do:
| > | >
| > | > my computer | properties | advanced tab | startup and recovery button.
| > | >
| > | > check the drop down list, both lines shd be there
| > | >
| > | > make sure the "time to display" is set so you get a chance to actually
see
| > | > the choices menu at boot time. most likely it's set to 0 or 1 and just
| > | > flashed by.
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >
| >



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