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How to use and start the recovery console in Windows? I believe many inexperienced people don't know what to do about it. Therefore, this article summarizes the causes and solutions of the problem. Through this article, I hope you can solve this problem.

In our daily use of computers, the failure of the Windows operating system is already a very common thing. For most friends, if even safe mode or other startup options do not work, there is probably only the "ultimate trick" to reinstall the system. In fact, in the two new versions of WIN2000 and WINXP, it has left us a lifesaver of system failure. That is to start the recovery console.

Using the recovery console, you can perform operations including enabling and disabling services, formatting drives, reading and writing data on local drives, including drives formatted as NTFS file systems, and performing many other administrative tasks. The recovery console is especially useful if you need to repair your system by copying a file from a floppy disk or CD-ROM to your hard disk, or if you need to reconfigure a service that prevents your computer from starting normally. However, you can use this method only if you can use basic commands to identify and locate advanced users of problematic drivers and files. In other words, to use the recovery console, you must be an administrator, that is, you need to know the user name and password of your system administrator.

How to start the recovery console:

There are two ways to start the recovery desk:

1. Start directly. If you cannot start your computer, you can run the recovery console from the installation CD. Start the computer with the WINXP installation CD. When starting a text-based installation, follow the prompts and press R to select a repair or restore option. If you have a dual-boot or multi-boot system, you can select the drive to access from the recovery console. When prompted, enter the password of the system administrator. Then at the system prompt, type the "Recovery Console" command, enter help to get a list of command names, or enter the help command name to get the specified command. When you want to exit the Recovery Console command and restart the computer after the final operation is complete, enter "exit".

2. Install and start:

You can also pre-install the recovery console on your computer so that you can still use the recovery console if you cannot restart Windows. The recovery console option can be selected from the list of available operating systems when the system boots. After starting the recovery console, you must select the drive to log in (if you have a dual boot or multiple boot system) and you must log in with an administrator password. You can then use the commands provided by the console to perform simple operations (such as changing to different directories or viewing directories, etc.) and more powerful operations (such as repairing boot sectors, etc.). Install the recovery console as a boot option by inserting the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive while Windows is running, click start-run, type "G:i386winnt32.exe / cmdcons", where G represents the CD-ROM drive letter. At this time, a prompt window will appear asking you if you want to install it. After selecting "Yes", the system starts to copy files, and finally it prompts you that you have completed the installation of the system recovery console.

If you want to delete the recovery console after installation, you can open my computer, double-click the hard drive on which the recovery console is installed, choose folder options on the tools menu, click View-Show all files and folders, clear the hide protected operating system files check box, and then click OK. Delete the cmdcons folder in the root directory, delete the cmldr file in the root directory, right-click the boot.ini file in the root directory, then click Properties, clear the read-only check box, then click OK, open the boot.ini file in notepad, and delete the entries in the recovery console, such as "CMDCONSBOTSECT.Dat =" Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console "/ cmdcons". Just close the file after saving it.

Netizen question: I want to use Windows 2000/XP 's recovery desk to solve computer problems for me, so how can I start the recovery console?

Best answer: there are two ways, one is to boot from the installation CD, and the other is to boot from the hard disk. The specific steps are as follows:

First: please insert an installation CD of Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and set it in BIOS to boot first from CD-ROM. After starting the computer, the system will automatically enter the Windows 2000/XP installation interface option. Press the "R" key to select the second item "to use the faulty console to repair the Windows XP installation, press R." The system automatically logs in to the recovery console and the recovery console starts successfully.

The second: insert the Windows XP installation CD in the Windows 2000/XP system, then click "start → run", find the i386 folder on the Windows XP installation CD from browsing, select the winnt32.exe program in it, and enter the parameter / cmdcons,Windows XP prompt to start the installation after returning to the run dialog box. Restart the computer after installation, and the "Windows XP Recovery Console" option appears in the operating system selection menu, through which you can also enter the system recovery console.

2. Commands that can be used in the recovery console:

It should be said that most DOS commands can be used in the recovery console, including attrib, cd, chkdsk, cls, copy, del, dir, format, ren, rd and so on. Their usage is similar to that before, but it also enhances the functions of some of these commands. For example, the function of the rd command is to delete the specified directory without command parameters. This time, two parameters are added: [/ S]-used to delete the directory tree. That is, delete the directory and all subdirectories and files under the directory, which is equivalent to the deltree command in the previous version [/ Q]-when you delete a directory tree using the / S parameter above, the user is asked to confirm whether you really want to delete it. If you use the / Q parameter at the same time, namely "rd / S / Q", the deletion operation will cancel the confirmation, which is equivalent to the / Y parameter of the deltree command. As another example, the function of the format command is to format the specified drive into the specified file system, add a parameter to XP: [/ FS]-format the disk according to the specified file system type (FAT, FAT32, NTFS), for example, "format E: / FS:NTFS" means to format the E disk into NTFS format. If no file system is specified, the existing file system format is used.

Here are some commands that are very effective for system failure recovery:

1. The Bootcfg:bootcfg command is used to configure and restore the startup file, that is, boot.ini.

2. Disable and Enable: these two commands are used to disable / start or enable system services or device drivers.

3. Expand: used to extract files from compressed files.

4. Fixboot: writes the new partition boot sector to the specified partition.

5. Fixmbr: repair the master boot record of the specified disk.

6. Help: displays a list of commands used in the recovery console.

7. Listsvc: lists the services and drivers that can be used on your computer.

8. Set: displays and sets environment variables.

Due to the length of the article, it is impossible for the author to list their specific uses here. You can check their command help instructions. If you want to understand the operation of the SET command, you can type "Help Set" to see it.

After reading the above, have you mastered how to use and start the recovery console in Windows? If you want to learn more skills or want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!

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