Emergency Repair Disk in XP?

[philo]

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

Phil

 

[Chris Lanier]

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

 

[philo]

Thanks. I didn't see your earlier posting.

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

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

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

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.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

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

If you have a Windows XP installation CD, it's bootable, and
that's your emergency startup disk.

However, you can download diskettes here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=boot+disk&DisplayLang=en