Cannot use Windows Recovery Console

[Makoto]

Need to remove lilo bootloader and replace with the old Windows one but when trying to get in to Windows Recovery Console it tells me that I have no disk present.

[Indrid Cold]

That's strange, it should find the partition.
If you still have the distro on the drive, or otherwise if you load a live CD, can you see the NTFS partition correctly?

[Makoto]

Ah, didn't actually realise my laptop has a SATA disk, thats why the RC cannot see my disk, need to find the drivers for it to work.

[noog]

Ah, didn't actually realise my laptop has a SATA disk, thats why the RC cannot see my disk, need to find the drivers for it to work.

Owch. :P

Recovery console is crap at best. Try ERD Commander, it's l33t. It's a full XP running of a CD, with a whole suite of apps to repair disks and manage the system.

[ShyBoy]

I just have the ultimate boot cd packed away if anything ever goes wrong. :thumb:

[Makoto]

ERD Commander looks good, for $1410.00 it should be!!

I'll just have to create a virtual floppy drive, write the files to the vFDD and then put them on to CD.

[JamesZero]

ERD Commander looks good

ERD is the mutt's nut's mate... it has saved me many times at work.