Editing in XP recovery console

[SirStefan32]

I was looking for editing command in XP recovery console.

I remember edlin command from 2000, but I couldn't find it in XP. I looked at all commands and couldn't find anything that looks like it. Am I missing something obvious or is there no way to edit boot.ini from the XP console?

 

[Ryanwb]

bootcfg /list

and then

bootcfg /rebuild

 

[SirStefan32]

Damn. Thanks a lot man.

Out of curiosity, how long have you been in the IT field?

 

[Ryanwb]

Damn. Thanks a lot man.

Out of curiosity, how long have you been in the IT field?

8 years, right out of college

 

[BillsCarnage]

Just curious, but is this something that will fix/rebuild corrpupt system files?

I had the power go out a month ago and when the comp restarted XP had a corrupt system file. Nothing from the recovery screen would work - safe mode, last know good config, etc. It had something to do w/ the agp driver, or one of the needed agp files for startup.

i hadn't created a recovery disk ( to fix from the install cd), so i ended up putting another drive in and reinstalling XP and copying the data off the old one.

Is there a way to fix corrupt system files w/o reinstalling the OS or having the recovery disk?

 

[Ryanwb]

Is there a way to fix corrupt system files w/o reinstalling the OS or having the recovery disk?

Yeah.. you can get a DOS boot disk off of the web from like www.bootdisk.com or something that can read the NTFS file system and manually copy the files that have corrupted. I rarely see them files actually corrupt that isn't directly related to a hardware error (bad sector on HD or something) but it does happen.

 

[BillsCarnage]

cool, thanks for the info

 

[UncleChris]

Two things I've done to avoid these kinds of problems....

1. I bought a UPS for a little less that $100 from Costco...

2. When I upgraded my hard disk, I kept my old one and use it solely and only to back up the main drive.


Haven't had a problem in a very long time.....