|
|||||||||
Microsoft's ERD Commander Software ReviewDiy-Computer-Repair can help!Why you need ERD Commander.Over the years Operating Systems have evolved from DOS to Vista. With that evolution there has been another evolution, how to fix the problems inherent with the increasingly complex environment of the computer operating system. You will find more information on Emergency Repair Disks in the Self Computer Repair Unleashed! E-Book. When NT was introduced it came on ninety floppy disks. Then the bootable cd a couple of years later. The first three floppies would start the system and you could trouble shoot it from there, when the CD came out it had an option for trouble shooting your computer. With Windows 2000, XP, and now Vista trouble shooting your problems are no longer so simple. MS has deicide to use what they call the Emergency Recovery Console. This is a convoluted, confusing, and down right unusable program. So as with most MS products they have to do a solution, a fix, that fix is ERD Commander.
So what is ERD Commander? It is a mini XP operating system on a cd. It has a xp style desktop and tools to fix problems with a computer that will not start or you have locked your self out I would recommend you have ERD Commander in your TS Toolbox. This will allow you to recover data from a non functional computer, it will allow you to use Ghost to put the image you made back on in the event of a hardware or software failure. You can remove hardware or software drivers that were installed and caused a blue screen when the computer restarted. There are a lot of things you can do with ERD Commander that I have not listed. A plus is it is a bootable cd, no need for a floppy!
Quote from Microsoft's web site Pitfalls or other things you will need with ERD Commander: One thing that comes to mind is the amount of support built into this program. If you have a system that is a year older than the version of ERD you have there is a good chance that all the device drivers you will need are on the cd. If you have a newer system you may have to get drivers for the video, any raid array controller, or network card you have in the system. Another draw back to the cd is that if you want to use a recovery tool such as Ghost you will have to have it on a separate disk or device like a usb flash drive or external hard drive. At the time of writing this article ERD Commander was widely available but do to Microsoft's dropping support of this fine program in favor of the 'command console' kludge it will be extremely hard to find. See this a tutorial on ERD Commander. Rating:
Update - Windows 7 has a build a Emergency Recovery (ER) CD function that works quite well in conjunction with the Restore points and system imaging programs. It is recommended that if you have Windows 7 that you create the ER CD. You can use it almost in the same way as with ERD, the difference is you have to use the Command Prompt Console and MS convoluted syntax to do your repairs. I have used it twice to restore a Windows 7 installation. Once to repair the boot record and once to install a Ghost Image of a Windows 7 install.
Return to previous page
Return to top
From the Desert South West ~ Arizona, USA |
|||||||||
When your computer won't start or is infected with a virus you need a bootable device to start the system to fix it. Index Home Page Software Reviews Index Advance Web Ranking review Avg Software Review BartPE Software Review Erd Software Review Ghost Software Review RSS Reader Review Symantec Software Review Virtual Computers Watch TV on your computer! NOT |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
