How to Create a Very Nice "Administrator's Toolkit" - Step 4: Windows Recovery Consoles

1.  Under the Admin folder, the recovery consoles sit in the following folders:
            2KRC    -  Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Recovery Console
            XPRC    -  Windows XP Service Pack 2 Recovery Console
            2K3C     -  Windows Server 2003 Recovery Console

        There are also some specialized ones you can add too:
            NTRC    -  Raxco Windows NT Recovery Console
            ANTR    -  ERDisk Windows NT Recovery Console
            A2KR    -  ERDisk Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Recovery Console
            AXPR    -  ERDisk Windows XP Service Pack 2 Recovery Console

2.  The Recovery Consoles basically consist or the files on the boot floppies for the various operating systems.
     So extract the contents of the boot floppies for Windows 2000 (2KRC) and Windows XP SP2 (XPRC) to their folders.
     For Windows Server 2003 you need to install the Recovery Console on a machine (winnt32.exe /cmdcons) and copy those files
     to the folder (2K3C).

3.  You will need to use a hex editor on the file SETUPLDR.BIN in each of those folders and replace all occurrences of I386 with 2KRC, XPRC, or 2K3C.

4.  Make sure you downloaded the Windows CD-ROM tag files here and placed them under the Admin folder (you should have done this during setup).

5.  The RCON.TXT file under your ISOLINUX folder is the menu that will appear when you hit F3 at the boot prompt.

     It should look like this booted up: (You can remove the entries in RCON.TXT and ISOLINUX.CFG for the Recovery Consoles you aren't using)

6.  Goto Step 5: Hard Disk Utilities