Emergency Repair Disk

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Your Windows XP CD-ROM is bootable and contains tools to repair Windows XP
and reinstall.
 
Chris said:
Your Windows XP CD-ROM is bootable and contains tools to repair
Windows XP and reinstall.
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So why, when installing XP Updates, does the dialog box say "Backup your
system and update your (presumably emergency) *system disk*" then?
 
There is a program you can download that will create boot disks for Win XP.
It spans 6 - 1.44 floppy disks and is not intended to be used for "emergency
repair". However, since the CD rom is bootable, and floppy disks are
out-dated, why would you want to go through the trouble?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310994



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from the wonderful said:
Hi,

Does the notion of a Emergency Repair Disk exist in Windows XP?
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Not afaict, although (interestingly) when you backup the system state
with NTBackup, it creates/updates 'repair' copies of the registries
(under c:\windows\repair) just as if it did. An apparently undocumented
feature, maybe left over from Win2k (which did have an ERD)?
 
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