MS
January 6th 04, 01:10 AM
After a lot of hassle (bad floppies, etc.), I finally got the 6 XP boot
diskettes to work.
I clicked the "repair with recovery console" option, and now I am in
something that looks like DOS, indeed on the hard drive. Is that what the
"recovery console" is, something that looks like DOS, a command prompt? Or
should there be a GUI?
Anyhow, now that I can access the HD, here is what I want to do, which I am
having problems with: I want to copy a few files in a folder on the desktop
to the \windows\system32\drivers folder.
The reason for that is: right before the shutdown before I couldn't boot up
again, I had moved 3 files from that \drivers folder to a new folder I
created on the desktop. I don't want to go into here the details of why I
did that. I was trying to solve another problem, and had no idea the files I
moved were important for booting. I did that in Windows, and it seemed to
have no problem letting me do that, so they didn't seem like protected files
or anything.
However, since the system would not boot up after that, I suspect that
caused the problem, and want to move those files back into the
\windows\system32\drivers folder.
So, the system looking like dos, I tried to CD into that folder on the
desktop, first with the command--
CD "\Documents and Settings" , just for a start, and then I was going to go
further one by one until reaching the desktop folder, and that other folder
inside it, with those three files. However, when I typed that command, I
received the message "access denied". I don't see any way to get to those
files to move them back into the \drivers folder.
I am the only user of this computer, therefore the administrator. I am
always logged into Windows as the "Administrator" (or perhaps it's "Owner").
I have not set a password, and never need one to log on.
However, when starting the recovery console, it asked for my password. Not
having set one, I just pressed "Enter", and came to that Dos prompt. (At
first in C:\Windows, I was able to CD it to the root directory, but now
cannot get into the D&S folder.)
Any suggestions on how I can do that?
What else can be done with the "Recovery Console"?
Thanks again to all of you for your help.
"purplehaz" > wrote in message
. ..
>
> " MS" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "purplehaz" > wrote in message
> > . ..
> > > Boot to a win9x floppy boot disk or an xp floppy boot disk to get to
> dos.
> > If
> > > your drive is formatted in fat32 either will work, if ntfs only xp
boot
> > disk
> > > will work. Get boot disks here: www.bootdisk.com
> >
> > I tried a Win 9x floppy boot disk. Booted to the disk, but again
couldn't
> > access the HD, as it is NTFS.
> >
> > So, if I use the Win XP boot disks, will they enable me to access the
HD,
> > without a Windows CD?
> >
> > I saw the bootdisk file on Microsoft to download. It then installs onto
6
> > floppies. Is it possible to install it onto one CD instead, set the boot
> > order to CD first, and boot from CD?
> >
> > I'd still like to hear more about how that network option works, if
anyone
> > understands it.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> The six boot disks will allow you to get into the recovery console and I
> think from there you can copy files off the drive. I'm not sure if you can
> put them on a cd or not, many times the install program will look to the a
> drive specfically and if it on a cd it wont see it. I'm not familar with
the
> network boot option, sorry.
>
>
diskettes to work.
I clicked the "repair with recovery console" option, and now I am in
something that looks like DOS, indeed on the hard drive. Is that what the
"recovery console" is, something that looks like DOS, a command prompt? Or
should there be a GUI?
Anyhow, now that I can access the HD, here is what I want to do, which I am
having problems with: I want to copy a few files in a folder on the desktop
to the \windows\system32\drivers folder.
The reason for that is: right before the shutdown before I couldn't boot up
again, I had moved 3 files from that \drivers folder to a new folder I
created on the desktop. I don't want to go into here the details of why I
did that. I was trying to solve another problem, and had no idea the files I
moved were important for booting. I did that in Windows, and it seemed to
have no problem letting me do that, so they didn't seem like protected files
or anything.
However, since the system would not boot up after that, I suspect that
caused the problem, and want to move those files back into the
\windows\system32\drivers folder.
So, the system looking like dos, I tried to CD into that folder on the
desktop, first with the command--
CD "\Documents and Settings" , just for a start, and then I was going to go
further one by one until reaching the desktop folder, and that other folder
inside it, with those three files. However, when I typed that command, I
received the message "access denied". I don't see any way to get to those
files to move them back into the \drivers folder.
I am the only user of this computer, therefore the administrator. I am
always logged into Windows as the "Administrator" (or perhaps it's "Owner").
I have not set a password, and never need one to log on.
However, when starting the recovery console, it asked for my password. Not
having set one, I just pressed "Enter", and came to that Dos prompt. (At
first in C:\Windows, I was able to CD it to the root directory, but now
cannot get into the D&S folder.)
Any suggestions on how I can do that?
What else can be done with the "Recovery Console"?
Thanks again to all of you for your help.
"purplehaz" > wrote in message
. ..
>
> " MS" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "purplehaz" > wrote in message
> > . ..
> > > Boot to a win9x floppy boot disk or an xp floppy boot disk to get to
> dos.
> > If
> > > your drive is formatted in fat32 either will work, if ntfs only xp
boot
> > disk
> > > will work. Get boot disks here: www.bootdisk.com
> >
> > I tried a Win 9x floppy boot disk. Booted to the disk, but again
couldn't
> > access the HD, as it is NTFS.
> >
> > So, if I use the Win XP boot disks, will they enable me to access the
HD,
> > without a Windows CD?
> >
> > I saw the bootdisk file on Microsoft to download. It then installs onto
6
> > floppies. Is it possible to install it onto one CD instead, set the boot
> > order to CD first, and boot from CD?
> >
> > I'd still like to hear more about how that network option works, if
anyone
> > understands it.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> The six boot disks will allow you to get into the recovery console and I
> think from there you can copy files off the drive. I'm not sure if you can
> put them on a cd or not, many times the install program will look to the a
> drive specfically and if it on a cd it wont see it. I'm not familar with
the
> network boot option, sorry.
>
>