From: "Rich Gauszka" 

It's even worse when you have a corrupted registry and realize you could
fix it by booting into the recovery console if only you had a real Windows
CD.

 The could add the recovery console as a boot option but I haven't seen
anyone that does that




"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:437cc933$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> That really sucketh with most computers today, that you don't get
"full"
> versions of the os... :-(
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:437c1547$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Just have recovery CD and not a real windows OS CD, with regard to XP
>> anyway.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
>> news:437c0890$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> If you have "real" installation medias (i.e. not
recovery cd's but
>>> normal
>>> windows installation cd's) for all the systems, and the laptop hasn't
>>> been
>>> used much yet (so you won't mind re-installing xp), you could install
>>> all
>>> the windows versions on it starting from the oldest one (w98),
>> partitioning
>>> the hd first of course. Then you'll get that windows startup menu when
>>> you
>>> start the computer, where you get to choose which os you want to
>>> startup,
>>> without installing any additional boot managers. I worked like that on
>> some
>>> test systems once, before we got vmware (multiboot tends to be a little
>> bit
>>> fragile when testing all sorts of unfinished software).
>>>
>>>
>>> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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