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Recovery console how to load XP

This is a powerful tool so be careful how you use it

Old MS DOS users will find it familiar

Put your XP CD in the CD‐Rom drive and boot from the CD

If your PC does not boot from the CD you will need to alter the BIOS settings


 * Altering BIOS Settings**

Tread carefully here as you may cause a lot of problems that you wished you hadn’t

On rebooting keep pressing DEL until the setup page appears for BIOS

Scroll through the different locations to find the Boot sequence, it is usually on the second one down

However there is no golden rule.

When at the Boot sequence highlight by scrolling on to it with the Down or Up arrows on the keyboard.

Change how it boots by using either **Page Down or Up** to CD‐C‐A

When you have the CDROM as the first press Esc >

Then press F10 to Quit and when prompted type **“Y”** to accept changes and save.

[ Remember the sequence, and you can change it back later]

When it has booted from the CD ( It takes time so patience ) you will have options to repair by pressing “R”

This opens the Recovery Console

You will see displayed Windows installations on your PC and be asked to choose an option

If your system is on C:\ press “1” or if on another press the respective number

[ If only one Drive still press **“1” i**t will not move until you have selected]

You will now be asked for the Administrators Password if you don’t know this See My tip on :‐“Administrators Password Change “

At the chevron “ > “ type “ __**Help”**__ (Without the quotes )

This will present a list of all the commands you can use

PANIC NOT if you do not understand, all that you have to do is type the Command names and after a space type forward slash Question mark as per e.g. __**Copy[space]/?**__

Now if you feel that there is a problem with the hard drive you type the following:‐

__**CHKDSK[space]/ R**__

The “R” tells it to repair the disk as it checks it. Simple ain’t it ?

See my Tip :‐ “ Disable Specific Device “

See My Tip :‐ “ Copy CD Windows Files “

See My Tip :‐ “ Boot sequence corrupted “

See My Tip :‐ “ Disable Specific Device with Recovery Console