Emergency Repair Disk in XP?

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philo

Does the notion of an emergency repair disk exist in XP or did they die out
with Win2000?
Thanks

Phil
 
Since i'm guess you didnt like my answer from this morning i provide a bit
more info.

Windows XP doesnt include DOS, and if your hard drive is formatted in NTFS a
DOS boot disk will not even read the hard drive. you can boot from a DOS
floppy in order to format you hard drive or partition it, but these features
are built into the Windows XP CD-ROM.

If for some reason you should damage your install of Windows XP you can boot
from the CD-ROM and repair it from the Windows XP setup. You can also
access the recovery Console from the XP CD-ROM.

You can crate a "System Disk" if you are unable to boot XP, but the same
tools are on the Windows XP CD-ROM. An ERD disk like the ones you could
create in Win2K offers the same feautres the windows XP CD-ROM does.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Windows XP Bootdisk Sets
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable
to Start Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314079

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (Win2K ONLY)
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/techenthusiast/tricks/administration/erd.asp
 
Thanks. I didn't see your earlier posting.

Phil
Chris Lanier said:
Since i'm guess you didnt like my answer from this morning i provide a bit
more info.

Windows XP doesnt include DOS, and if your hard drive is formatted in NTFS a
DOS boot disk will not even read the hard drive. you can boot from a DOS
floppy in order to format you hard drive or partition it, but these features
are built into the Windows XP CD-ROM.

If for some reason you should damage your install of Windows XP you can boot
from the CD-ROM and repair it from the Windows XP setup. You can also
access the recovery Console from the XP CD-ROM.

You can crate a "System Disk" if you are unable to boot XP, but the same
tools are on the Windows XP CD-ROM. An ERD disk like the ones you could
create in Win2K offers the same feautres the windows XP CD-ROM does.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Windows XP Bootdisk Sets
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable
to Start Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314079

Creating an Emergency Repair Disk (Win2K ONLY)
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/techenthusiast/tricks/administration/erd.asp
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from the wonderful said:
Does the notion of an emergency repair disk exist in XP or did they die out
with Win2000?
Click to expand...

Checkout the reply/ies to your previous post. if you can't find them
with OE from the MS news server, try groups.google.com, which should
have them by now.
 
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