Aug 22 2000
Windows 2000 Recovery Console
Windows 2000 comes with a very handy ‘utility’ called the Recovery Console. It provides a ‘command prompt’ bootup so a disk may be accessed in order to recover from boot failure. The Recovery Console is NOT installed by default and so must be manually installed.
Navigateto the \I386 folder on the Windows 2000 CD and run Wiinnt32.exe /cmdcons
This will install the Recovery Console, adding it to the boot menu (which would have normally been hidden on Windows 2000 menu). The boot menu timeout may be set to 0 seconds (it will never show) as the command console may be started by pressing F8 when prompted.