Emergency Repair Disks

Emergency Repair Disks
Last Updated: 06 May 2004
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Your ERD (Emergency Repair Disk) is a critical piece of
maintaining your valuable NT/2000 system configuration,
and it needs to be generated regularly to be truly useful.

Here are some tools for creating/managing ERDs:


ERD TOOLS

• NTBACKUP ............... Native Utility (Windows 2000)
• REGBACK ................ Resource Kit
• REG .................... Resource Kit

• ERDisk ................. http://www.aelita.com/products/ERDisk.htm
• ERUNT .................. http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/
• Handy Backup ........... http://www.handybackup.com/registry-backup.shtml
• RepairDisk Manager ..... http://www.raxco.com/products/repairdiskmanager/
• WinRescue .............. http://www.superwin.com/


WIN32 ARCHIVES

• CNET Downloads ......... http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=registry+backup&tg=dl-2001


DISASTER RECOVERY FOR AD

• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/activedirectory/support/adrecov.mspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/windows2003srv/tnt1-94.mspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/windows2000srv/tnt1-76.mspx
• http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/webcasts/wc031902/wcblurb031902.asp
• http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBE/tip2300/rh2384.htm
• http://www.4mcts.com/downloads/addisaster.pdf


WHITEPAPERS & TECH DOCUMENTS

• http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=301254
• http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=322756
• http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=231777
• http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=246507
• http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=146887
• http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=164471
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnw2kmag01/html/Win2KRecoveryandRepair.asp
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period00/ntp0063.htm
• http://www.execsoft.com/tech-support/NT-articles/article.asp?F=1999010708.htm
• http://www.execsoft.com/tech-support/NT-articles/article.asp?F=1999011823.htm
• http://www.execsoft.com/tech-support/NT-articles/article.asp?F=1999030914.htm
• http://www.execsoft.com/tech-support/NT-articles/article.asp?F=1999033118.htm


PERSONAL NOTES

• RDISK from NT4 has been replaced by NTBACKUP and REGBACK

• Be sure to backup SystemState with NTBACKUP, as it is
  an incredible life saver -- especially for Win2K DCs


RELATED SCRIPTS (ALSO IN THIS ARCHIVE)

• http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=BackupSS.BAT
• http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=BackupSched.BAT


RELATED TOPICS (ALSO IN THIS ARCHIVE)

• http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=RepairNT.TXT
• http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=RegEdit.TXT
• http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=SafeConfig.TXT
• http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=Backups.TXT
• http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=Utils.TXT