How to create Windows 2000 repair disk?

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swordfish1

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... without having a stiffy drive???

I know that when 2000 was released some people were still using stiffies, but today is just ridiculous to put anything on stiffy. I want to create an emergency repair disk, the standard one, but I want it on a CD, so I can boot from the CD if something happens and attempt restore etc.
 
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I tryed googling it, but no success so far. It returns loads of irrelevant stuff, like 3rd party repair cds etc.
 
The following page:
  • http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
refers to How To Create a bootable CD to access the Recovery Console - this 7Mb .iso will give you a bootable Recovery Console rather than using the 6 floppy set above. Unzip and burn the .ISO file to disc. You can boot the CD and run the Recovery Console

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/bootdiscs/xp_rec_con.zip
 
[)roi(] said:
The following page:
  • http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
refers to How To Create a bootable CD to access the Recovery Console - this 7Mb .iso will give you a bootable Recovery Console rather than using the 6 floppy set above. Unzip and burn the .ISO file to disc. You can boot the CD and run the Recovery Console

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/bootdiscs/xp_rec_con.zip
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isn't that for XP?

and isn't the repair disk installation specific thing, hence the reason for windows refusing sometimes to do a repair if you don't have one?
 
swordfish1 said:
isn't that for XP?

and isn't the repair disk installation specific thing, hence the reason for windows refusing sometimes to do a repair if you don't have one?
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yeah it is for XP
 
prevention is better than cure..

if you are using xp, insert your xp cd whilst running xp, open prompt, browse the xp cd, issue winnt32.exe /cmdcons to install the recovery console. This will add an item to boot.ini so you can select the recovery console as a line item at boot up. Doesnt help our parent poster for win2k, but at least you xp guys got no excuse now:-)
 
Here's a guide to creating a number of different boot cds, w2k included. I guess it might also be a good idea to place as many repair utilities as you need on this disk as well.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

Haven't tried this myself, but it seems fairly easy to follow.
Hope it helps.

Here's something else as well:

http://www.geocities.com/ziyadhosein/
 
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Just boot from the win2000 CD, it gives you the option to enter the recovery console.
 
caroper said:
Just boot from the win2000 CD, it gives you the option to enter the recovery console.
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yes, but isn't there something on the ERDs that is specific to the particular installation or something?
 
[)roi(] said:
Here's a guide to creating a number of different boot cds, w2k included. I guess it might also be a good idea to place as many repair utilities as you need on this disk as well.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

Haven't tried this myself, but it seems fairly easy to follow.
Hope it helps.

Here's something else as well:

http://www.geocities.com/ziyadhosein/
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well, all of the above are very useful for creaing bootable cds, but not for creating standard emergency repair disk (ERD) on a cd like from Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System tools -> Backup -> Emergency Repair Disk.

maybe I am missing something, is there anything special to the ERD? I mean is there any special machine specific information on those disks? Can I create ERD on one PC and then use it on another? If there isn't anything special on the ERD besides being bootable and having some system tools for checking file system etc, then I guess I don't really need one, I can just use the installation CD, or a generic bootable CD like the ones from the links above.
 
the erd should contain your sam file and some parts of the registry hive...i.e. the machine configuration and user accounts. This is terribly handy for a server to have as backup, and is machine specific. For home users (who have backups of their data) you wouldnt save too much time using ERD.
 
werner said:
the erd should contain your sam file and some parts of the registry hive...i.e. the machine configuration and user accounts. This is terribly handy for a server to have as backup, and is machine specific. For home users (who have backups of their data) you wouldnt save too much time using ERD.
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so I am better off having one ERD? Now the question is how to make it on a cd.

what do you have against the Intel 955xbk board by the way? I think the boxed version is quite cool, unfortunatelly you can't get it in SA.
 
it's not the board that cr@p, the board is supreme, it's the silly intel 820 cpu that sucks dog ****. too hot running, too slow, too much power usage...I could go on and on and on, but dual core wannabees should stick to amd for now. I cant put the 550j cpu into the 955xbk, because then I would have nowhere to put the 820 cpu (intel 925 doesnt support dual core) so for now you get a really good motherboard coupled with a really bad cpu. I just spent most of boxing day on solutions to quieten the thing down (I use it in the lounge as a htpc) and it's still not as quiet as the amd4000 (which has stock cooling) and not as fast and not as energy efficient. Unfortunately, the amd4000 has a silly habit of once a week rebooting (probably mobo) so it wasnt suitable as a 24/7 htpc.
 
I have 2 new intel PCs (3 GHz) and one of them is very quiet, the other one is a bit noisy, but I think most of the serious noise is coming from the PSU, not from the CPU fan.

isn't the dual core more or less as fast as the HT CPUs?

I was looking for the boxed version of that intel mobo but no luck, the boxed one comes with 8 SATA ports.
 
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