Vista System Access/Recovery from Unbootable State

[RCNut]

When a Vista system is unable to restart and all restore/fallback procedures
have been unsuccessful, is there a way to create a stand-alone, bootable
system that can view/modify/delete/replace Vista files on the Vista system
disk. I received a hotfix #939331 for a fix for a Vista system that would not
boot. However, the hotfix required a running Vista environment to be
executed. This is a catch-22. How do I resolve this without
restore/reinstallation of Vista?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Some of that answer is in this article:

The update is not installed successfully, you receive a message, and the
computer restarts when you try to install an update in Windows Vista :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949358/en-us

The command prompt in the recovery screen of the boot disk should let you
have access.

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