User Guide

ERD Commander 2003
User’s Guide
1 Introduction
When your Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Server 2003
system becomes unbootable and you’ve exhausted the recovery options
available with the operating system, you can rely on ERD Commander 2003
to provide full access to your dead system with a familiar Windows-like
environment. ERD Commander 2003 provides the tools you need to help you
quickly diagnose and repair the problem that is preventing your system from
booting.
Like the Recovery Console of Windows 2000 and Windows XP, as well as
the previous versions of ERD Commander, ERD Commander 2003 makes
any Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003 file system accessible, including FAT,
NTFS and CDFS. Unlike those other utilities, ERD Commander 2003 offers
both a graphical windowing environment and a command-line console. In
addition, ERD Commander 2003 includes a service and driver manager,
Registry editor, Explorer-like file system browser, Notepad-like text editor,
Event Viewer, and local password changer so that you can gain access to
accounts to locked accounts. And when you need to save files to another
system on the network or to copy files from another system as part of the
repair process, ERD Commander 2003 gives you full access to network file
shares.
With ERD Commander 2003, repairing your dead systems has never been
easier or more intuitive.
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