Re: Recovery Console

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 08/20/02 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:57:14 -0700

No. Network access is not going to help
get at a non-booting system.
Assuming you are right, the Chkdsk needs to be
run to get past step 1 in your recovery path, I can
only see use of another system to get it done. 

--
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Montague Ring" <ringmbr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4b5501c2484b$68d74280$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09...
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> The only other WinXP systems are laptops, so I doubt
> that's possible. They are networked, though. Could that
> help?
>
> Thanks
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Any chance you could hang the disk on another XP for
> >a time, in order to run CHKDSK while booted into the
> >other XP build ?
> >
> >--
> >Roger Abell
> >MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
> >Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >
> >"Montague Ring" <ringmbr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:475501c247ce$abfced30$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09...
> >> Initial problem: a corrupted registry, which prevented
> >> WinXP from starting, but a quick search on KB (Q307545)
> >> yielded a solution, which involved using the recovery
> >> console. Unfortunately, during a file copy in the
> >> recovery console, the computer unexpectedly restarted,
> >> and it seems now that a 'critical table was damaged'
> >> (according to a KB article Q315403), resulting in a
> stop
> >> error 0x000000ED. Anyway, the article suggests
> >> that 'CHKDSK /r' will solve the problem.
> Unfortunately, I
> >> am unable to run CHKDSK, since I encounter STOP:
> >> 0x000000ED when I try to start WindowsXP or the
> Recovery
> >> Console.
> >>
> >> It is a OEM, preinstalled WindowsXP. I do have their
> >> recovery disk (which just seems to be a standard
> >> WindowsXP CD with some of their own utility programs
> >> thrown in), but when I boot from the CD, it does not
> give
> >> me an option to run the recovery console, but instead
> >> asks me whether I want to install Windows. WindowsXP
> >> setup reports that the partition WindowsXP is currently
> >> installed in is unrecognised - that is probably why the
> >> Recovery Console option is not given. On the other
> hand,
> >> third-party utilities can read the partition (NTFS)
> >> correctly, so it does not seem beyond recovery.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure where to go from here. Running CHKDSK will
> >> apparently solve STOP: 0x000000ED, so I suppose I need
> to
> >> be able to run the recovery console. Is there any way
> of
> >> accessing the recovery console (apart from the methods
> I
> >> have described above)? Are there any other solutions
> >> which does not need the Recovery Console?
> >>
> >> Thanks for all your help.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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