Can I create a bootable repair CD without buying a separate XP CD?
There are several options to create a bootable repair CD which might fix some
types of corruption: bad mbr, boot ini, partition boot record, corrupted
password or other issues which lock one out. All I have seen require a Windows
CD (if you want to repair your Windows environment), and I don't believe the
I386 directory or the recovery partition substitute for that. There are said to
be ways to do this without a Windows CD, but I found no clear path to do so.
ERD Commander apparrantly provided both a recovery console and a bootable fixit
toolkit (*it may have required OS install disks, this is not clear) but it no
longer available from MS for retail customers. So I need to bake something
myself.
i) Is this worth the trouble? What is the time-efficient way to create a
bootable repair kit?
ii) So how can I cook my own repair CD and create a way to fix issues that
might well occur? It should be able to restore the correct MBR and partition
records, perform basic file operations etc. Limited automation would be nice,
as I don't have the names and locations of critical system files memorized.
-- LS
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