Repair /S Prompts for Old Emergency Repair Disk

- Microsoft Windows NT Resource Kit for Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced

   Server version 3.1

SUMMARY

When you run the Windows NT Resource Kit repair utility to save emergency repair information for a computer, you will be prompted to insert your original Emergency Repair Disk so it can be updated. If you do not have your original Emergency Repair Disk or you do not want to update it and you are running the utility on a RISC-based computer, you can bypass this by pressing ENTER or choosing the Ignore button.

MORE INFORMATION

When you run REPAIR.EXE, the /S option creates a repair directory that contains information that will be used to generate an Emergency Repair Disk. If you run repair with the /S switch only, it always assumes you want to update your current Emergency Repair Disk and it prompts you for the disk. On 80x86-based computers, pressing the ENTER key at this point bypasses this step and starts creating the repair directory. On RISC-based computers, such as the DEC Alpha and the MIPS R400, after you press ENTER, a dialog box with the option to Abort, Retry, or Ignore appears; choose the Ignore button.

If you also use the /X switch in addition to /S (for example, REPAIR /S /X), it does not assume you are updating an old Emergency Repair Disk and immediately starts creating the repair directory.