About Systerm Restore

[Sirius]

Hello,

Is it possible to run 'system restore' from the 'recovery console' or from a
startup floppy/CD assuming that the darned pc will not even go to 'safe mode
with command prompt' ? If yes, how one does it?

I could not find any posts on it. Thank you.

 

[Malke]

Hello,

Is it possible to run 'system restore' from the 'recovery console' or from
a startup floppy/CD assuming that the darned pc will not even go to 'safe
mode
with command prompt' ? If yes, how one does it?

I could not find any posts on it. Thank you.

Run System Restore from Recovery Console -
http://ramanathan.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/system-restore-from-recovery-console/

Malke

 

[Jose]

Hello,

Is it possible to run 'system restore' from the 'recovery console' or from a
startup floppy/CD assuming that the darned pc will not even go to 'safe mode
with command prompt' ?  If yes, how one does it?

I could not find any posts on it. Thank you.

You cannot run System Restore from the Recovery Console.

The referred method allows you to copy in fractional parts of the
registry from a selected Restore Point.

Perhaps those are the parts you need to resolve your unspecified issue
and you will be all fixed up.

It could create more issues when you get finished since part of your
registry will be current and part of your registry will be old and
from the last successful checkpoint or Restore Point creation. It may
not fix anything at all.

What about the other things a System Restore restores? Do you not
need them? Do you think that you just need these two fractions of the
registry?

If your problem is not being able to boot into Safe Mode and you think
you need to, will copying in these registry snippets fix it?

Wouldn't you rather figure out and fix the problem of why you can't
boot in Safe Mode (or why you think you need to)?

If there is another way to resolve whatever your issue is, I would
pursue that first.

 

[Twayne]

You cannot run System Restore from the Recovery Console.

The referred method allows you to copy in fractional parts of the
registry from a selected Restore Point.

Perhaps those are the parts you need to resolve your unspecified issue
and you will be all fixed up.

It could create more issues when you get finished since part of your
registry will be current and part of your registry will be old and
from the last successful checkpoint or Restore Point creation. It may
not fix anything at all.

What about the other things a System Restore restores? Do you not
need them? Do you think that you just need these two fractions of the
registry?

If your problem is not being able to boot into Safe Mode and you think
you need to, will copying in these registry snippets fix it?

Wouldn't you rather figure out and fix the problem of why you can't
boot in Safe Mode (or why you think you need to)?

If there is another way to resolve whatever your issue is, I would
pursue that first.

Woof! That site's a great demo of how not to design a web site if
nothing else. Reading into that a little, it doesn't look very thorough
but I can see it might help in some cases.

I have to ask the OP: Are you sure you have your drives boot order set
so you can boot from your optical drive? You provide very little
information for anything.

In general, the answer would be no but as with most things in this world
I'm sure enough research would reveal other little treasures like the
last URL and one of them might help out. Or not.

Also, what happens when you do try to start up in Safe Mode? Error
messages, etc.?

As bruce implied, there might be a better plan of attach available.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Jose]

Hello,

Is it possible to run 'system restore' from the 'recovery console' or from a
startup floppy/CD assuming that the darned pc will not even go to 'safe mode
with command prompt' ?  If yes, how one does it?

I could not find any posts on it. Thank you.

More help is likely if you offer a details or a reason to why you
think you need to boot that darned PC in Safe Mode (idle curiosity is
a fine answer). Not so many questions...

What happens when you try to boot in Safe Mode?

If there is some problem, what do you think caused the affliction?

 

[Sirius]

What happens when I try to go to safe mode?

Literally nothing. Win XP logo on the black screen just hangs. Big freeze,
crash. Starting to look like just another dead hard drive or bad IDE
controller on the motherboard. Chkdsk froze and so did a third party diag
software (Seatools).

I'll try to get my hands on some other diag software.

What do I think caused it? Wear and tear and old age.

Not my computer, just trying to help someone rescue some stuff. But it might
be beyond that. Of course there is no backup.... I was just hoping that
maybe there was a slight chance it was not hardware related...

Thank you all for trying to help.

Hello,

Is it possible to run 'system restore' from the 'recovery console' or from
a
startup floppy/CD assuming that the darned pc will not even go to 'safe
mode
with command prompt' ? If yes, how one does it?

I could not find any posts on it. Thank you.

More help is likely if you offer a details or a reason to why you
think you need to boot that darned PC in Safe Mode (idle curiosity is
a fine answer). Not so many questions...

What happens when you try to boot in Safe Mode?

If there is some problem, what do you think caused the affliction?

 

[Daave]

Literally nothing. Win XP logo on the black screen just hangs.

That is not Safe Mode; that's Normal Mode.

Are you sure you are pressing F8 (tapping the key repeatedly
immedicately after BIOS splash screen helps) correctly? F8 should give
you a menu of options -- just text, no graphics at all.

Big
freeze, crash. Starting to look like just another dead hard drive or
bad IDE controller on the motherboard. Chkdsk froze and so did a
third party diag software (Seatools).

What you describe is *exactly* what happened to me this week! Would you
believe that clearing the motherboard's CMOS is what fixed my problem?
It's easy to do, so it's worth a try. Or you may need to replace the
coin-sized battery on the motherboard.