Start Recovery Console from the Windows XP CD-ROM

If you have not preinstalled the Windows Recovery Console, you can start the computer and use the Recovery Console directly from your original Windows XP installation disc.to start recovery console from CD follow these steps.

• Insert the Windows XP CD into your CD drive and restart your computer. If you are prompted, select any options required to start (boot) from the CD.
• When the text-based part of Setup begins, follow the prompts. Select the repair or recover option by pressing R.
• If you have a dual-boot or multiboot system, select the installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
• When you are prompted, type the Administrator password.
• At the command prompt, type Recovery Console commands, you want to use.
• At any time, you can type Help for a list of available commands.
• At any time, you can type Help command name for help on a specific command. For example, you can type help attrib to display the help on the attributes command.
• At any time, you can exit Windows Recovery Console by typing Exit at the command line.
  

how to install recovery console in windows xp

If your computer starts Windows, you can add the Windows XP Recovery Console as a startup option from the Windows environment. To install the Recovery Console as a startup option, follow these steps:

• login to the windows
• insert the Windows CD into your CD drive
• Click Start and click Run
• Type the following command
  
• X:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons (where X: is the CD Drive letter), and then press ENTER on your keyboard. Note - There is a space before /cmdcons
• Click OK and follow the instructions to finish Setup. Note - This adds the Windows Recovery Console to the Windows Startup folder.
• Restart your computer and select the Recovery Console option from the list of available operating systems.
  

how to Configure automatic administrator logon for Recovery Console

To set an automatic administrator logon for the Recovery Console, complete the following steps.please note that you must have administrator privilege in order to complete these task.

• First Login as an Administrator
• Go to the Control Panel (Click Start, and then click Control Panel)
• Click Switch to Classic View in the right pane, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Local Security Policy
• Expand Security Settings, expand Local Policies, and then click Security Options
• Double-click the Recovery Console: Allow automatic administrative logon policy, and then set it to Enable

After you set enable policy is effective immediately.Make sure that you reopen the Local Security Policy snap-in to make sure that the effective setting for the policy is "Enabled." after you you start to Recovery Console, you are not prompted for a password

After completion of this process the registry key of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole , DWORD value data is set to 1

testing a TCP/IP configuration

after configuring TCP/IP and restarting the computer, you should use ipconfig and ping command prompts tools to test the configuration and connections to other TCP/IP hosts and networks. such testing helps ensure that TCP/IP is functioning properly.

using ipconfig

you use the ipconfig tool to verify the TCP/IP configuration parameters on a host. this helps to determine whether the configuration is initialized or if a duplicate IP address exists. use the ipconfig tool with the /all switch to verify configuration information.

using ping

the ping tool is a diagnose tool that you can use to test TCP/IP configurations and diagnose connection failures. after you have verified the TCP/IP configuration, use the ping tool to determine whether a particular TCP/IP host is available and funtional. to test connectivity use the ping tool with the following syntax in command prompt:

1. first go to the command prompt.
   
2. then type ipconfig or ipconfig /all and press enter.
   
3. then type ping 127.0.0.1 (loopback address) to check loopback working properly.
   
4. then use ping ip address of the computer (eg: ping 192.168.0.10) to check NIC (network interface card) working properly.
5. then use ping command to ip address of default gateway (router) to check connectivity to gateway.
6. then use ping address of the remote host (this can be pc in the network or internet) to check network working properly.
   

using automatic private ip addressing (APIPA)

the windows xp professional implementation of TCP/IP supports automatic assignment of IP address for simple LAN -based network configurations. this addressing mechanism is an extension of dynamic IP address assignment for LAN adaptors, enabling configuration of IP address without using static IP address assignment or installing the DCHP service. automatic private IP addressing is enabled by default in windows xp professional so that home users and small business users can create a funtioning, single subnet, TCP/IP based network without having to configure the TCP/IP protocol manually or set up a DHCP server.

the process for the automatic private IP addressing feature

• windows xp professional TCP/IP attempts to find a DHCP server on the attached network to obtain a dynamically assigned IP adrress.
• in the absence of a DHCP server during startup (for example, if the server is down for maintanance or repairs) the client cannot obtain an IP address.
• automatic private IP addressing generates an IP address in the form of 169.254.x.y (where x.y is the client,s unique identifier) and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 .