Re: A Boot Recovery Disk
From: Bob Harris (rharris270[SPAM)
Date: 09/04/04
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:32:12 -0500
XP can make a boot floppy, but that is really only a variation of Windows ME
(i.e, DOS), and is fairly useless if you have NTFS formatted partitions,
which is the default for XP.
The XP CDROM is itself bootable, and it contains something called the
recovery console. This is very limited, but it can fix a few common
problems. Links about recovery console:
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm (near bottom)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm
Personally, I like something called Bart's PE builder, which is a way of
making a bootable CD with more power than the recovery console. Link to
Bart's:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/index.php?p=1
Finally, their are many LINUX based bootable CD images that can help, in
some cases. KNOPPIX version 3.6 is pretty good. Read about KNOPPIX here:
However, all LINUX-based products are a bit weak in the NTFS area. Many can
read NTFS, or copy from it. only a few can make limited changes to files on
an NTFS partition.
"Randall J Hall" <rjhall51@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5f5d01c49283$a69fad30$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I am a licensed user of Windows XP Home Edition and want
> to know how I can create a system recovery disk. I know
> that Windows XP Professional Edition has a Automated
> System Recovery Wizard, but what about us that own the
> Home Edition? Does Microsaft has this utility for the
> Home Edition?
>
> Please provide me with my options.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Randall Hall
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