Using Windows 2000/XP/2003 Recovery Console

Recovery Console is a tool for Windows 2000/XP/2003 dedicated to repairing systems. It can enable and disable services, format drives, and drive on local drives. Reading and writing data (including drives formatted as NTFS file systems) and performing many other administrative tasks is a "magic weapon" to fix the system when Windows 2000/XP/2003 security mode is not accessible. This issue of E12 has an introduction to the installation of the Recovery Console. This article will further explore the Recovery Console.

1. Using the Recovery Console

When the computer starts, select "Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" (that is, the Recovery Console), and when prompted, enter the Administrator password. Then at the system prompt, type the "Recovery Console" command. Enter "help" to get a list of command names. Enter "help command name" to get help for the specified command.

In the faulty console, we can use Attrib, Batch, Bootcfg, ChDir (CD), Chkdsk, Cls, Copy, Delete (Del), Dir, Disable, Format, Diskpart, Enable, Expand, Fixmbr, Fixboot and other commands to fix various problems that occur on the computer.

2. Practical Commands Introduction

Obviously, many commands in the Recovery Console are familiar to us and will not be described here. The following is a description of the commands that ordinary users usually do not use often. With them, we can easily complete many system maintenance tasks.

1Diskpart

Action: Create and delete partitions on your hard drive.

Syntax: Diskpart [/add |  /delete] [device_name |  Drive_name |  Partition_name] [size]

Parameter: If you do not take any parameters, the Windows character mode version of Diskpart will be started.

/add - create a new partition;

/delete - delete the existing partition;

drive_name - the partition to be deleted represented by the drive letter, only with "/delete" is used at the same time, such as "E:";

partition_name - the partition to be deleted represented by the partition name can be used instead of "drive_name" (used only with "/delete"); Br>

size - The size of the partition to be created, expressed in megabytes (MB), used only with "/add".

Instance:

Delete F partition - diskpart /delete F:

Create a 200MB partition - diskpart /add \\Device\\HardDisk0 200

2Fixboot

Action: Write the new partition boot sector to the specified partition.

Syntax: Fixboot [drive]

Parameter: If you do not take any parameters, the Fixboot command will write the new partition boot sector to the system partition where the user logs in. If the system detects an invalid or non-standard partition table tag, the user will be prompted to continue with the command and will not proceed unless there is a problem with the drive you are accessing. Writing a new master boot record to the system partition can corrupt the partition table and cause the partition to become inaccessible.

Instance: Write a new partition boot sector to the system partition of drive D - Fixboot D:

3. Deleting the Recovery Console

Although the Recovery Console works well, if you don't like it, you can remove it manually. The method is:

Open "My Computer", double-click the hard drive with the Recovery Console installed, assuming C drive. Click "Tools → Folder Options", select the "View" tab, select the check box in front of the "Show all files and folders" option, clear the check box in front of the "Hide protected operating system files" option. Exit after "OK".

Now enter the root directory of the C drive, delete the "\\Cmdcons" folder, Cmldr file. Right-click on the Boot.ini file, select "Properties", clear the "Read Only" checkbox in the window that opens, and "OK" to exit. Then open the Boot.ini file in "Notepad", delete the entry of the Recovery Console (usually "C:\\cmdcons\\bootsect.dat="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console"/cmdcons"), save the file, close, and finally Then restore the read-only property of the Boot.ini file.