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Recovery Commander Gives XP the Boot
Backup utility expands on the features found in System Restore.
Lincoln Spector, special to PC World
Friday, February 13, 2004
What do you do if Windows 2000 and XP can't boot? V Communications has a solution: Recovery Commander, now available as a $40 download from the company's Web site.
Recovery Commander has been part of V Communications' SystemSuite and Fix-It packages for some time, but this is the first time it's offered as a stand-alone product.
At its heart, Recovery Commander is a system backup tool like XP's own System Restore. But unlike System Restore, it doesn't require you to successfully boot Windows to restore your system.
Both Windows XP and 2000, NT-based operating systems, offer little or nothing in the way of emergency boot tools. If you use Windows 98 or Me, you can create a perfectly good emergency boot disk, a DOS-based floppy filled with utilities for fixing the sort of problems that keep Windows from booting. But there's nothing like this in Windows 2000 or XP. The problem is compounded by the fact that DOS can't read or write to the NT File System.
The XP CD-ROM does allow you to boot to the Restore Console, which offers many tools similar to the old emergency boot disc. But most PCs today don't come with an actual Microsoft Windows XP CD-ROM. Instead, they come with a Restore CD provided by the hardware vendor. Many of these Restore CDs offer only one solution to a PC that won't boot: Reformat the hard drive and return it to the condition it was in when you bought the PC. This is a bit like amputating an arm to cure a hangnail.
Back Up and Boot
Enter Recovery Commander. The program comes with an .iso file you can use with your CD-R/RW drive and authoring software to create a bootable, Linux-based disc. Unlike DOS, Linux can read and write to NTFS partitions....................................
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