User Guide

ERD Commander 2003
User’s Guide
Running CHKDSK on Corrupt Drives
ERD Commander 2003 will let you check the consistency of hard drives.
Enabling and Disabling Services and Drivers
You can list and modify the start types of a system's drivers and services with
ERD Commander 2003’s Service and Driver Manager utility. The utility
implements an interface similar to the Windows 2000/XP Services MMC
snap-in, which makes it easy to identify services and drivers and to disable
those that are preventing a system from booting.
Restoring Windows XP Restore Points
Windows XP’s Restore Point feature periodically creates snapshots of a
system’s state that includes system files and Registry data. Overcoming a
deficiency of Windows XP’s Restore Point functionality, ERD Commander
2003 allows you to restore unbootable systems to a previous Restore Point.
Comparing a Working System with a Dead System
ERD Commander 2003’s System Compare utility let’s you compare service
and driver configuration and the system files of a dead system with that of a
live system or a Windows installation media to which you direct it. This
enables you to identify differences between working systems and one that
doesn’t boot in order to guide your repair process.
Partitioning and Formatting Disks
The Disk Management MMC snap-in that ERD Commander 2003 includes in
its Computer Management utility has many of the features of the Windows
2000/XP Disk Management MMC snap-in, allowing you to delete, format, and
create partitions and volumes. If you prefer a command-line environment you
can use the corresponding command-line tool, DiskPart, to accomplish the
same tasks.
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