Another thing that you may want to try if you can not get into safe mode etc is to place the hard disk drive into another computer as a slave and then take the data off of it that way. If that is not possible you could do what I have had to do before and install another copy of XP onto that computer under a different windows folder name. It does state that you may lose account profiles but I found that if I did not place the same profile name onto the new copy of XP it kept the old profile and I was able to get the data off of it that way. Further to this if you are really worried you may lose the data in the profile boot into a dos screen and copy the data out of the profile into a newly created folder somewhere else on the hard disk drive. Just some thoughts.
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jared Manhat Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows XP Automated System Recovery Disk Are you able to boot into Safe Mode? It keeps rebooting because it's hitting a STOP error and you have it set to automatically reboot. If you can get into Safe Mode then right-click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Startup & Recovery - Settings > under System Failure - deselect Automatically Restart. Reboot and now you will be able to see the STOP error with the file that ran into the error, which if it's a driver you Can identify then you might be able to update/reinstall it, like a video driver or something, and you will also have the STOP 0x0 error which you can also google. If you can get into Safe Mode ok, then try Safe Mode with Networking and try to move the data to a server. Jared Manhat Systems Administrator Accutest Laboratories _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Caple, Andrew Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Windows XP Automated System Recovery Disk Good morning everyone, (What a great way to start the day) One of our "important" PC has died over night (the computer turns on and goes to the Windows Screen and then reboots - this happen over and over again) and I now need to do a recovery on it, quick question in regards to the Windows XP recovery process. Has anyone ever used the recovery console to bring a machine backup? I jumped onto the internet to see what I could find and I found an article that mentions typing in: "disable mup" at the command line (after selecting the recovery option). However the message i got back mentioned that the registry had be come to corrupt. My next option is to try and create a Automated System recovery disk - if found the process on the MS website (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299526 <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299526> ) however I'm not sure if it's machine specific. Am I able to go to a desktop that works and then create the recovery disk and then take this to the machine that's crashed? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Andrew List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
