Win2K Recovery Console


I read Paula Sharick's "The ABCs
of Win2K Recovery and Repair" (August 2001), which discusses when to use Windows 2000's Emergency Repair Disk (ERD), Safe Mode, and the Recovery Console (RC). I was intrigued by the statement that you can run the RC on a Windows NT 4.0 installation. The article also explains how to allow automatic administrative access and access to all drives and folders. But the article tells you how to do those things on only Win2K.


If you use the RC on an NT 4.0 installation, you're restricted to the default folders unless you add the following registry entries under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NTCurrentVersion\\Setup\\RecoveryConsole subkey: SecurityLevel (of type REG_DWORD, value 0--disabled) and SetCommand (of type REG_DWORD, value 1--enabled). These values are the same as those that the Group Policy snap-in makes on Win2K, and manually adding these keys to an NT 4.0 installation works just fine.


Jeff Hill

jeffhill@yamazen.com


Jeff Hill 1/18/2002 2:38:40 PM

I have a question in regards to the licensing implications of installing the RC onto a Windows NT 4 server. Are you in fact violating MS Licensing as this software cannot be downloaded from the MS Website and is obviously only available if you have the Win2K CD?

Regards



Sean Nicholson 8/30/2001 10:57:49 PM