Missing ~ key when using recovery console
in [Windows XP]
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From: Jose on 18 Feb 2010 07:12 On Feb 18, 3:48 am, "Grandad" <m...(a)sherwooditsolutions.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks everyone... > > The suggestion from Pegasus worked for me, whereas the one from Elmo didn't, > but that may be down to me. I have now carried out the Restore and am now > back in business. I had to do it through the Recovery Console as windows > would not open in Safe Mode. > > Going back to my original question. Later I found that as you go through > the loading of the Recovery Console there is an opportunity to select the > right keyboard. It happens so quickly that I have never seen it before.. It > defaulted to the US keyboard and I change it to UK. As they say you learn > something every day. Thanks again everyone. > > Grandad > > "Grandad" <m...(a)sherwooditsolutions.co.uk> wrote in message > > news:%23QuBGh8rKHA.5356(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > > > > Hi > > > I need to carry out a system restore from the recovery console. Most of > > the keys function as expected with the exception of the @ and " keys which > > are reversed - not a problem. However I need to use the ~ key and I cant > > find it. Any ideas please > > Regards > > Grandad That's a good one! What was the original problem? How do you perform a System Restore using the Recovery Console?
From: Daave on 18 Feb 2010 10:23 Jose wrote: > On Feb 18, 3:48 am, "Grandad" <m...(a)sherwooditsolutions.co.uk> wrote: >> Thanks everyone... >> >> The suggestion from Pegasus worked for me, whereas the one from Elmo >> didn't, but that may be down to me. I have now carried out the >> Restore and am now back in business. I had to do it through the >> Recovery Console as windows would not open in Safe Mode. >> >> Going back to my original question. Later I found that as you go >> through the loading of the Recovery Console there is an opportunity >> to select the right keyboard. It happens so quickly that I have >> never seen it before. It defaulted to the US keyboard and I change >> it to UK. As they say you learn something every day. Thanks again >> everyone. >> >> Grandad >> >> "Grandad" <m...(a)sherwooditsolutions.co.uk> wrote in message >> >> news:%23QuBGh8rKHA.5356(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> >> >> >>> Hi >> >>> I need to carry out a system restore from the recovery console. >>> Most of the keys function as expected with the exception of the @ >>> and " keys which are reversed - not a problem. However I need to >>> use the ~ key and I cant find it. Any ideas please >>> Regards >>> Grandad > > That's a good one! > > What was the original problem? > > How do you perform a System Restore using the Recovery Console? He is probably referring to the procedure outlined here (which is often referred to as a "manual System Restore"): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 But I know you already knew this. ;-) From one of your posts: There is really no such thing as a manual system restore. You can implement a portion of what an actual System Restore does with KB307545 to get you going again and then do a real System Restore.
From: Jose on 18 Feb 2010 10:33
On Feb 18, 10:23 am, "Daave" <da...(a)example.com> wrote: > Jose wrote: > > On Feb 18, 3:48 am, "Grandad" <m...(a)sherwooditsolutions.co.uk> wrote: > >> Thanks everyone... > > >> The suggestion from Pegasus worked for me, whereas the one from Elmo > >> didn't, but that may be down to me. I have now carried out the > >> Restore and am now back in business. I had to do it through the > >> Recovery Console as windows would not open in Safe Mode. > > >> Going back to my original question. Later I found that as you go > >> through the loading of the Recovery Console there is an opportunity > >> to select the right keyboard. It happens so quickly that I have > >> never seen it before. It defaulted to the US keyboard and I change > >> it to UK. As they say you learn something every day. Thanks again > >> everyone. > > >> Grandad > > >> "Grandad" <m...(a)sherwooditsolutions.co.uk> wrote in message > > >>news:%23QuBGh8rKHA.5356(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > >>> Hi > > >>> I need to carry out a system restore from the recovery console. > >>> Most of the keys function as expected with the exception of the @ > >>> and " keys which are reversed - not a problem. However I need to > >>> use the ~ key and I cant find it. Any ideas please > >>> Regards > >>> Grandad > > > That's a good one! > > > What was the original problem? > > > How do you perform a System Restore using the Recovery Console? > > He is probably referring to the procedure outlined here (which is often > referred to as a "manual System Restore"): > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 > > But I know you already knew this. ;-) > > From one of your posts: > > There is really no such thing as a manual system restore. You can > implement a portion of what an actual System Restore does with > KB307545 to get you going again and then do a real System Restore. That is what I am suspecting... KB307545 does not equal System Restore, and if somebody needs convincing, I can do that too! The KB things has been duly noted, but I don't see how ~ or @ comes into play with KB307545. I have never used those keys with that KB, but I have not quite seen everything. |