What is the importance of recovery console in your pc?

[sactus]

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mga masters, gi-scan nako yesterday ang pc with combofix then combofix detected that there was no recovery console installed in the system. then i click yes when it asked if I want to install the recovery console..
unsa man jud ka-importante ang recovery console sa imong system? ngano man d i ug wala ani?
need your info guys,
thank you.

[poloskk]

gamit na sya sacs.. Its primary function is to enable administrators to recover from situations where Windows does not boot as far as presenting its graphical user interface. char! hehehe bitaw mao na iya function..



Tasks that can be performed via the recovery console

The recovery console has a simple command line interpreter. Many of the available commands closely resemble the command line commands that are normally available on Windows, namely attrib, copy, del, and so forth.

From the recovery console an administrator can:

* create and remove directories, and copy, erase, display, and rename files
* enable and disable services (which modifies the service control database in the registry, to take effect when the system is next bootstrapped)
* write a new Master Boot Record to a disc, using the fixmbr command
* write a new Volume Boot Record to a volume, using the fixboot command
* format volumes
* expand files from the compressed format in which they are stored on the installation CD-ROM
* perform a full CHKDSK scan to repair corrupted disks and files, especially if the computer cannot be started properly

Filesystem access on the recovery console is by default severely limited. An administrator using the recovery console has only read-only access to all volumes except for the boot volume, and even on the boot volume only access to the root directory and to the Windows system directory (e.g. \WINNT). This can be changed by changing Security Policies to enable read/write access to the complete file system including copying files from removable media (i.e. floppy drives).

Although it appears in the list of commands available by typing "HELP", and in many articles about the Recovery Console (including those authored by Microsoft), the NET command does not function. No protocol stacks are loaded, so there is no way to connect to a shared folder on a remote computer as implied.