From: "Geo." 

You know.. It seems to me that it should be possible to build an NT boot
CD. Not a recovery console but a full fledged command window boot CD.

Geo.

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3de063a8.27293606{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> > Oh, so the command console is a single app, it's not actually running
> > format.exe when you use the format command?
>
> It's not clear how the Recovery Console is implemented. The botom line is,
> as Rich said, that you can only perform the commands listed by entering
> 'help' at the recovery console prompt. You cannot run utilities.
>
> One point I wanted to make about 'winnt32 /cmdcons' is that it is not
> clear what happens in the future with the Recovery Console files added by
> this process. There was a KB article for W2k SP1 pointing out that the
> installed RC files are *not* updated by installing SP1 (it is obvious that
> booting the W2k CD and choosing to run RC is not going to use any SP
> updates).
>
> I haven't seen any documentation on what happens with W2k SP2/SP3, or with
> XP. I think a hotfix did update the installed RC.
>
> John

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