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Using the Windows 2000 Recovery Console to Fix NT

/ December 1, 2018 — Backup/Recovery

In this article, we created a boot disk that could recover from a rename of ntldr.

Well, what if you needed access to other files on the NTFS file system to recover. It would be nice if you could use something like the Windows 2000 Recovery Console to fix the filesystem.

Well, guess what? You can use the Windows 2000 Recovery Console to fix NT as well. Just boot off of the Windows 2000 CD. Push R to continue:

1rec

Push C for a recovery console:

2rec

You’ll have to specify the installation and log on:

3rec

Notice that there is no ntldr. We just have to rename ntldr.bak to ntldr:

4rec

Reboot, and all is happy.

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