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Recovery Console - a useful feature Windows XP, can restore the operating system if it is loaded with problems (or, in other words, when the operating system will not boot at all). In the Recovery Console, you can format the hard disk partitions and work with system services and files, restore the master boot record and boot sector if they are damaged, and much more.

Thanks to the Recovery Console on a computer, hard drive can copy a variety of system files from other media, or configure system services and drivers without booting Windows XP. This allows, for example, solving the problem associated with the driver when booting the operating system is blocked and it becomes impossible. Start the Recovery Console in two ways.

If Windows XP cannot be loaded from the hard disk, the Recovery Console can be run from a CD-ROM, Windows XP. If there is no optical drive, and Windows XP installation files are stored on a hard drive partition, you can boot from a floppy disk and run the appropriate setup program from the command line.
The Recovery Console can be installed directly on your hard drive and add it as one of the options menu, load Windows XP.
As mentioned earlier, the Recovery Console, you can run the installation program Windows XP. Make it easy. After running the setup program should await the completion of the process of copying the installation files. Then in the next window you want to select one of the options for continuing the action:

installation of Windows XP;
Setup is complete;
restoration of the damaged copy of Windows XP.
Choose the last option by clicking on the keyboard . Windows XP Setup program will analyze the contents in the computer hard drives, in particular, will be implemented search for existing copies of Windows XP, which may require rehabilitation. Finding some of these copies, the installation program prompts you to select whichever of them you want to restore, and then enter the administrator password. If the password correctly, you will be registered in the selected copies of Windows XP. Now at your disposal will be a set of effective administrative tools to restore the operating system that allows you to perform various tasks. In particular, using the Recovery Console to perform the following steps:

formatting partitions on your hard disk;
starting and stopping system services;
read and write any files on your hard disk;
restore damaged master boot record;
decompress compressed files;
deleting files and directories.
The Recovery Console cannot just run from the hard disk, but also to introduce directly into Windows XP, so the console can be accessed directly from the boot menu before loading the operating system. To configure the Recovery Console to your hard drive, follow these steps.