[24hoursupport] Re: ERD and Recovery Console as a boot option
- From: "Spider" <spider1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:45:18 -0400
I don't have a Windows 2000 with me to check on, but I think if you go
to Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools and click on Backup you
will be able to create a recovery disk from within there. In reading
your problem though, I doubt that will help you to create a recovery
disk on a system that is not healthy. My suggestion would be that you
run the Windows 2000 setup again and this time choose the SECOND repair
option you see. Skip by the first option and continue as though you
were doing a full install. Then press R to repair at the second option.
This will re-install windows on top of the existing install without the
need to re-install all your programs. It will bring windows back to the
original state so you will need to reapply critical updates and service
packs.
Spider
Largo, Florida 33771
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/spider1
-----Original Message-----
From: 24hoursupport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:24hoursupport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barry Aronson
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 10:03 PM
To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [24hoursupport] ERD and Recovery Console as a boot option
Hello Group! I have tried in vain to figure out how to be able to
create a
new ERD or even an update to the old one for the last 2 months. For
various reasons I DO NOT want to do another clean install because
everything is working fine with the exception of this inability.
Is there a way to repair whatever is corrupted in my repair folder or
EVEN
accidentally deleted? I have tried with the repair option in Windows
2000
Pro setup disks, but the situation stays the same. My CD is
unfortunately
a composite one from a corporate friend who burned 3 different OSs on
one
CD. Pro, Server and Advanced Server. He did not make any of it
bootable,
but I have the 4 boot disks and they work just fine to get me back to
the
desktop. In the past I have relied on tape backups to restore whatever
went
wrong but lately this method or my media is not working correctly. I
cannot afford to get any new equipment, hence no CD-RW and the tapes are
quite expensive especially if they have a heavy failure rate.
This brings me to my installation of the Recovery Console as a boot
option. I thought that this would be my best choice in the event that
an
unrecoverable crash occurred. But for some reason the console does not
open up at boot, but of course still is allowed at the 4th boot disk,
but
this is annoying as to why if it is offered as boot option it does not
open up.
I should tell you that my Windows 2000 Pro partition is a dual boot
situation with Windows 98SE where the boot.ini file exists, as well as
the
other boot files for Windows 2000. Also I am on an ADSL 768 kps
connection.
So if anyone could help me with a tip on one or both subjects I would be
grateful.
Barry ~ baronson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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