recovery console cd

[Guest]

What is a recovery console cd? I contacted HP about my computer showing the error message that my NTLDR is missing. And windows root\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupted. So what will this cd do?

 

[Jim Macklin]

HP may not supply a full Windows CD with their computers.
So they may have a special CD with the Recovery Console.
The Recovery Console just boots a command line interface (it
looks like, but is not DOS). Windows XP is based on Windows
NT. NTLDR is NT Loader. Windows Root is the first layer of
Windows, system 32 is the folder, and hal.dll is the
hardware dynamic linked library, the firsts that contain
Windows. Somebody may correct some errors in my
description, but it is close enough for now.

What did HP say? Do they have a CD, will they supply a real
Windows CD or just part of it? At what cost.

Once you get the Recovery Console running, you use typed
word commands to repair the files on your hard drive.

See these MS articles
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307654
see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308041


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| What is a recovery console cd? I contacted HP about my
computer showing the error message that my NTLDR is missing.
And windows root\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupted.
So what will this cd do?

 

[Guest]

HP said my computer requires recovery console CD to resolve this issue. And that the recovery console CD is free. So if I understand your description this is not a full Windows xp cd. Just hope it solves the issue.

 

[Jim Macklin]

Hope it all goes well. The way HP/Compaq supply the OS and
the software tools to repair the computer does seem to be
intended to make you visit their service centers and pay for
repairs that Microsoft puts on the genuine MS CDs.
That's one reason Dell is getting such a large share of the
market, Dell supplies real CDs.


--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.


| HP said my computer requires recovery console CD to
resolve this issue. And that the recovery console CD is
free. So if I understand your description this is not a full
Windows xp cd. Just hope it solves the issue.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Peter.

The Recovery CD will format the Hdd and install the OS, all data files
would be lost.

Perhaps HP's Recovery CD does this. The Recovery Console that is built into
every retail WinXP CD-ROM WILL do this if you insist, but it does not do it
automatically. The "console" is not hardware; it is simply a very
basic-level program included on the CD and intended to be used to solve a
variety of possible problems, as Jim said in his first post. It does this
in response to user commands, not automatically.

RC