Repair vs. Recovery
The Repair feature should not be confused with the Recovery
Console, which is also accessed from the boot CD. The Recovery Console is a much
less comprehensive repair tool, and requires that you either use a repair
(floppy) disk or manually copy files from a CD or floppy to the server’s
%Windows% directory manually via a command line.
The repair disks must be constantly updated to account for
changes to the server’s configuration, otherwise the recovery will fail.
Manually copying system files is only effective if you know exactly which files
are corrupt and need to be replaced, which is nearly impossible. In addition,
if dozens or hundreds of files need to be replaced, manually copying them via a
command line can become quite tedious.
The option to actually repair the operating system. Once the
system has been booted with the Windows 2003 installation CD, you will see the
option to repair the system via the Recovery Console first, as shown below:
At this point you will want to select Enter to set up Windows
now. After agreeing to the licensing disclaimer you will arrive at the
following screen:
Here you will select “R” to repair the Windows installation. The
repair simply overwrites the Windows system files, and will allow the system to
recover most of the time. The repair will save all system and application
settings, so you will not need to re-specify the server’s name. In addition, you
will not have to reinstall any of the applications running on the server.
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