Hello.
Quick question if I may - before I dive headlong into an attempted system recovery:
I have a laptop running XP. I would like to boot Recovery Console from a USB floppy drive using the download Microsoft boot discs.
I would just like to check, and ask for your approval, of whether booting recovery console from the floppies,
would the following recovery console commands to work?Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
Restart the computer from the CD-ROM drive.
Press R to start the Recovery Console when the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears.
Select the installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
Enter the administrator password and press Enter.
Type cd System
Press Enter
Type del ntos.exe
Press Enter
Type cd wsnpoem
Press Enter
Type del audio.dll
Press Enter
Type del video.dll
Press Enter
Type exit
Press Enter. The computer will now restart automatically.
(From
this page.)
For background info, the reason for needing to run Recovery Console in this way, is because my system is infected with the ntos.exe virus, which my fully registered and up to date Zonealarm Security Suite did not recognise on entry and still doesn't identify on a full scan, and I am also in the unique and impoverished position of not having a functional CD-ROM drive in my laptop, and so am only able to use a USB floppy drive!