XP Recovery Console...?

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Q-Bie

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Heyas all

I work in a PC Store here in the UK, and we have to do a lot of work on repairing windows installations that customers have ruined <g>. Now, often I would boot up into recovery console, but more and more PC manufacturers arent giving out WinXP CD's, but including images of the OS on the Hard Drive, or on CD, with no install files or anything.

So, I want to know, is it possible to create a BOOTABLE cd which has recovery console on, but no windows OS (for legal reasons.. can't have a dodgy copy of winXP floating around). I know we can download the MS Boot disk set from their support site, and it WILL let you into recovery console, but it doesnt have the files to run, say chkdsk or anything, and when you have an unmountable_boot_volume error, it's no easy to fix without autochk.exe ;)

So, can anyone help us with this?

Thanks,
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Howdy40

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Not shure if this will help

ERD Commander 2002
ERD Commander 2002 boots dead systems from CD to a Windows-like repair interface.

Part of winternals admin pak from h**p://www.sometips.com/goodstuff/default.htm
Proggy is in English

Use this for activation

Unpack & Install and enter the serial:
Please NOTE this is important not to use the ------. Just copy
the serial information in between the ------
--------------------------------------------
LICENSENO=1844510318
PRODUCT=ERD2000-3
PRODUCT=FILEMON-1
PRODUCT=REGMON-1
PRODUCT=NTFSPRO-4
PRODUCT=REMRECOVR-2
PRODUCT=DISKCMDR-1
QUANTITY=1
COMPANY=ieX
ADMINISTRATOR=Stefan Hilse
EXPIRES=9/9/9999
SIGNATURE=NNKE8NR4 TT29RUZY NZ388UT2 A33A4YE4 4Y3NJ5W4 NET6N5NE 8JEUXWZE
Y27YNLYL ERA69JZP UT4M6RPW EXLE3W3T 3T868ZU5
-----------------------------------------------

The licence code shown is: 1844510318
Have fun!
 
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Q-Bie

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Actually thats pretty good, and I'll use it at home, but I can't use it at work. I for for a company which has over 100 stores in the UK and they're really hot on software theft, if I take something like that into work I'd get fired on the spot, lol.

I was wondering if its possible to make a bootable CD, like the normal windows install CD, but without any of the XP setup cabs on, just recovery console and needed files.

Noone?
 
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Q-Bie

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The floppys?

I have the set of floppys but I don't see how I can transfer them onto a CD and make it bootable?
 
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Howdy40

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Another possibility

In this link is bootable cd creator f*p://iseb2.surgi.dote.hu/Microsoft/XP

Maybe this will do what is needed without the loss of JOB. Hope this helps

Howdy
 
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Howdy40

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Lost my head

Noticed that link is for boot floppies! Long day with little sleep. Now to the meat h**p//users.senet.com.au/~shenza/self_boot_tutorial/HomePage.htm
Nice tutorial on creating bootable cd.

Howdy
 
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