How To: Remove Restrictions in Recovery Console in XP

Once again, not verified for Vista yet.


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Anyone who has spent a little time in the recovery console knows that you are unable to copy files to a floppy, and unable to write to most directories.

This can be changed! This must be done from within Windows.

First you must enable a setting in the registry.

Go to start, run, and type:

regedit.exe

Click OK.

Note: Its advisable to backup your reigstry before making any changes with the registry editor.

Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole


Make sure the SetCommand value on the right is set to 1, in Hexidecimal. You can modify this by double left clicking on SetCommand.

Now when you go to the Recovery Console, you have some new toys available.

These are new the set commands available now:

set AllowWildCards=TRUE <--This allows you to use wildcards in the recovery console.

set AllowAllPaths=TRUE <--This allows you read/write access to all files and directories.

set AllowRemovableMedia=TRUE <--This allows you to copy to a floppy drive.

set NoCopyPrompt=TRUE <--This makes it so you arent prompted when overwriting a file.