Recovery Console

[Kgolfer]

Hello,

I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in
the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to
the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Kgolfer" <[email protected]>

| Hello,

| I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in
| the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to
| the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?
| --
| Thanks, Ken

Go into the BIOS of the PC and set the boot option to boot from a CDROM prior to other
media such as the hard disk.

Additionally, the Recovery Console may be installed into your OS via the following Command
Line...

..\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hello,

I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in
the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to
the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

To boot from the CD drive, your BIOS boot order has to be set to CD
first (or at least before the hard drive). Apparently yours was. But
most people do not keep the CD first in the BIOS order, so before
doing the above it's necessary to go into the BIOS setup program to
change the boot order.

 

[Kgolfer]

Thanks Dave,

How do I go into the BIOS of the PC - I have Dell XPS machine?

 

[Curt Christianson]

A number of Dell XPS machines can access the BIOS settings by pressing F12
as soon as you start the computer. If the OS begins to load, you were too
late at getting in the BIOS. For your particular model XPS, I suggest you
check the Owners Manual for acccess to the BIOS in case it's not F12 in your
case. On the other hand you can check with Dell's support through their
website:
www.dell.com

--
Curt

http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://www.aumha.org/

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks Dave,

How do I go into the BIOS of the PC - I have Dell XPS machine?

How to get into your BIOS depends, not on Windows, but on what
motherboard/BIOS you have. As a matter of fact, you have to access the
BIOS before Windows even starts to boot. One common way is to press
the Del key when you first power on, but that's not necessarily right
for your computer. Watch the screen carefully when you first boot;
there's often a message there telling you what to do. If not, check
your system documentation or check with your vendor.

Also look here: http://michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
Or just try the Del key. There's a good chance that's correct for you.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Curt Christianson" <[email protected]>

| A number of Dell XPS machines can access the BIOS settings by pressing F12
| as soon as you start the computer. If the OS begins to load, you were too
| late at getting in the BIOS. For your particular model XPS, I suggest you
| check the Owners Manual for acccess to the BIOS in case it's not F12 in your
| case. On the other hand you can check with Dell's support through their
| website:
| www.dell.com

| --
| Curt

| http://dundats.mvps.org/
| http://www.aumha.org/


F12 ?

The vast majority of Dell platforms are F2.

 

[Curt Christianson]

I only looked at a small handful of XPS machines at their website, and
that's where I got the info. from. Unfortunately, the OP didn't state the
*exact* model he had, and I probably picked the wrong ones to look at.
I tried. ;-)