Recovery Console Install on Computer

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Bob Vinton

I tried to install the Recovery Console from the WinXP CD to my computer
startup. This is long after the initial installation of WinXP.

I got dire warnings about the Console not being compatible with the current
version of WinXP on my computer, & if I proceeded I would lose files, etc.
So I didn't proceed. I get the feeling that the Console should have been
installed with the initial WinXP installation, & thereafter it would have
been updated with other WinXP updates. Is that true?

Is there a way to safely install the Console long after the initial WinXP
installation?

Bob Vinton
 
Bob Vinton said:
So I didn't proceed. I get the feeling that the Console should have been
installed with the initial WinXP installation, & thereafter it would have
been updated with other WinXP updates. Is that true?
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Unfortunately, No. The SP2 update does not update the HD-installed
recovery console, tho several sites/folks claim that it will. In my
experience it does NOT.
Is there a way to safely install the Console long after the initial WinXP
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The only way I know of to get a good SP2 version of the RC installed on
your HD is to install it from a XP Setup CD that has SP2 already. To make
one of them from your original non-sp2 XP Setup disk you need to perform a
"slipstream". Google for "XP SP2 Slipstream" to find out how to do this.
It's not too hard, but you do need to download the full "network
installer" for SP2 (BIG!), and have your original XP CD on hand. And a CD
burner of course. Once you've got the SP2 CD, remove the current install
of RC (read help and support, it'll tell you how to do that manually),
then reinstall it from the new cd (again, H&S will tell you how to do
that).
 
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