ERD

[Bill SG]

I want to make an emergency repair disk, but can't find out how. Did they
get rid of it in XP? I tried ASR, but it wanted to backup my entire hard
drive to floppy.

 

[JBM]

I want to make an emergency repair disk, but can't find out how. Did they
get rid of it in XP? I tried ASR, but it wanted to backup my entire hard
drive to floppy.

The ERD is the windows CD.
Boot from the CD and when asked
press R to enter the repair console.

Personally I find it more useful to choose
the second repair option and have windows
attempt to repair its self.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi Bill,
The XP Installation CD itself is a bootable one and thus it acts as the
emergency startup disk.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.
However, you can download diskettes here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=boot+disk&DisplayLang=en
Windows XP Bootdisk Sets
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

see also-
'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

'Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315341

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Dusko Savatovic]

ERD is gone and ASR is replacement for it.
I strongly recommend you take backup of your system, specially if you
installed extra software.
To do ASR you will need:
a) backup media
b) WinXP bootable CD
c) one diskette

Your backup media can be tape, physical disk, another partition. I didn't
test burning directly to a CD/DVD, but it might be possible too.
ASR will backup your entire C: drive. It will also write two configuration
files to diskette.

If you need to restore from ASR, you boot from WinXP boot CD. During boot
process you press F2 (I think) to enter ASR mode. You then supply backup
media and diskette. The process then continues by installing WinXP and
restoring contents of C: drive.

Dusko Savtovic

 

[Alex Nichol]

I want to make an emergency repair disk, but can't find out how. Did they
get rid of it in XP? I tried ASR, but it wanted to backup my entire hard
drive to floppy.

For most machines you boot the XP CD direct ,and at the first menu use
the R option. If you *cannot* boot a CD, you can download a set of six
floppies to achieve the same result at
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;310994
(Six because they have to be able to handle NTFS)

Read about the commands then available in Help and support - search on
"Recovery Console Commands", including the quotes