Recovery Console

[Guest Kgolfer]

Hello,

 

I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in

the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to

the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

--

Thanks, Ken

[Guest David H. Lipman]

Re: Recovery Console

 

From: "Kgolfer" <Kgolfer@discussions.microsoft.com>

 

| Hello,

 

| I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in

| the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to

| the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

| --

| Thanks, Ken

 

Go into the BIOS of the PC and set the boot option to boot from a CDROM prior to other

media such as the hard disk.

 

Additionally, the Recovery Console may be installed into your OS via the following Command

Line...

 

..\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons

 

 

--

Dave

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Recovery Console

 

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:59:01 -0700, Kgolfer

<Kgolfer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in

> the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to

> the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

 

 

To boot from the CD drive, your BIOS boot order has to be set to CD

first (or at least before the hard drive). Apparently yours was. But

most people do not keep the CD first in the BIOS order, so before

doing the above it's necessary to go into the BIOS setup program to

change the boot order.

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest Kgolfer]

Re: Recovery Console

 

Thanks Dave,

 

How do I go into the BIOS of the PC - I have Dell XPS machine?

--

Thanks, Ken

 

 

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> From: "Kgolfer" <Kgolfer@discussions.microsoft.com>

>

> | Hello,

>

> | I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in

> | the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to

> | the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

> | --

> | Thanks, Ken

>

> Go into the BIOS of the PC and set the boot option to boot from a CDROM prior to other

> media such as the hard disk.

>

> Additionally, the Recovery Console may be installed into your OS via the following Command

> Line...

>

> ..\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons

>

>

> --

> Dave

> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

>

>

>

[Guest Curt Christianson]

Re: Recovery Console

 

A number of Dell XPS machines can access the BIOS settings by pressing F12

as soon as you start the computer. If the OS begins to load, you were too

late at getting in the BIOS. For your particular model XPS, I suggest you

check the Owners Manual for acccess to the BIOS in case it's not F12 in your

case. On the other hand you can check with Dell's support through their

website:

http://www.dell.com

 

--

Curt

 

http://dundats.mvps.org/

http://www.aumha.org/

 

 

 

"Kgolfer" <Kgolfer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Thanks Dave,

>

> How do I go into the BIOS of the PC - I have Dell XPS machine?

> --

> Thanks, Ken

>

>

> "David H. Lipman" wrote:

>

>> From: "Kgolfer" <Kgolfer@discussions.microsoft.com>

>>

>> | Hello,

>>

>> | I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD

>> in

>> | the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and

>> going to

>> | the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

>> | --

>> | Thanks, Ken

>>

>> Go into the BIOS of the PC and set the boot option to boot from a CDROM

>> prior to other

>> media such as the hard disk.

>>

>> Additionally, the Recovery Console may be installed into your OS via the

>> following Command

>> Line...

>>

>> ..\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons

>>

>>

>> --

>> Dave

>> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

>> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

>>

>>

>>

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Recovery Console

 

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:38:01 -0700, Kgolfer

<Kgolfer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dave,

>

> How do I go into the BIOS of the PC - I have Dell XPS machine?

 

 

How to get into your BIOS depends, not on Windows, but on what

motherboard/BIOS you have. As a matter of fact, you have to access the

BIOS before Windows even starts to boot. One common way is to press

the Del key when you first power on, but that's not necessarily right

for your computer. Watch the screen carefully when you first boot;

there's often a message there telling you what to do. If not, check

your system documentation or check with your vendor.

 

Also look here: http://michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

Or just try the Del key. There's a good chance that's correct for you.

 

 

> "David H. Lipman" wrote:

>

> > From: "Kgolfer" <Kgolfer@discussions.microsoft.com>

> >

> > | Hello,

> >

> > | I am attempting to get the Recovery Console and place my Windows XP CD in

> > | the CD Drive but when I attempt to reboot its by-passing the CD and going to

> > | the hard drive. How do I get it to recognize the CD Drive first?

> > | --

> > | Thanks, Ken

> >

> > Go into the BIOS of the PC and set the boot option to boot from a CDROM prior to other

> > media such as the hard disk.

> >

> > Additionally, the Recovery Console may be installed into your OS via the following Command

> > Line...

> >

> > ..\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons

> >

> >

> > --

> > Dave

> > http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

> > Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

> >

> >

> >

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest David H. Lipman]

Re: Recovery Console

 

From: "Curt Christianson" <curtchristnsn@NOSPAMyahoo.com>

 

| A number of Dell XPS machines can access the BIOS settings by pressing F12

| as soon as you start the computer. If the OS begins to load, you were too

| late at getting in the BIOS. For your particular model XPS, I suggest you

| check the Owners Manual for acccess to the BIOS in case it's not F12 in your

| case. On the other hand you can check with Dell's support through their

| website:

| http://www.dell.com

 

| --

| Curt

 

| http://dundats.mvps.org/

| http://www.aumha.org/

 

 

F12 ?

 

The vast majority of Dell platforms are F2.

 

 

--

Dave

http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[Guest Curt Christianson]

Re: Recovery Console

 

I only looked at a small handful of XPS machines at their website, and

that's where I got the info. from. Unfortunately, the OP didn't state the

*exact* model he had, and I probably picked the wrong ones to look at.

I tried. ;-)

 

--

Curt

 

http://dundats.mvps.org/

http://www.aumha.org/

 

 

 

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message

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> From: "Curt Christianson" <curtchristnsn@NOSPAMyahoo.com>

>

> | A number of Dell XPS machines can access the BIOS settings by pressing

> F12

> | as soon as you start the computer. If the OS begins to load, you were

> too

> | late at getting in the BIOS. For your particular model XPS, I suggest

> you

> | check the Owners Manual for acccess to the BIOS in case it's not F12 in

> your

> | case. On the other hand you can check with Dell's support through their

> | website:

> | http://www.dell.com

>

> | --

> | Curt

>

> | http://dundats.mvps.org/

> | http://www.aumha.org/

>

>

> F12 ?

>

> The vast majority of Dell platforms are F2.

>

>

> --

> Dave

> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

>

>