Yeah...I have several USB flash drives. Can you point me to software
that would let me boot and then get access to files on C and D? All I
really want to do is back them up to CD and then do a fresh reinstall.

Note that the BIOS does not have a boot-off-USB option...


On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:33:27 -0800, Trax <Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov>
wrote:

> markxyz59@cox.net (Mark) wrote:
>
>|>I posted earlier about Windows Updates screwing up and not accepting
>|>any passwords (it would login and then quickly log out). Good News: I
>|>was able to get the Recovery Console to give us access to the disk. We
>|>can see C and D drives and all files are there.
>|>
>|>Is there a way to clobber/reset passwords from the command prompt?
>
>Hiren's BootCD will reset your passwords
>http://www.9down.com/story.php?sid=2979
>
>Burn the ISO to a CD and boot up with it, applications listed on the
>home page.
>
>Also if you were using ERUNT
>http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
>your recovery would be much easier. After the fact I know...
>
>|>Our first instinct was to stick a USB Drive in and copy stuff, but the
>|>USB drivers don't appear to be there on the recovery console.
>
>Got a USB pen drive? I can post how to boot up with one.
>
>--
>50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing
>http://tinyurl.com/9usdj