Using Recovery Console on Windows 2003 computer that doesn’t start

Recovery Console in Windows based system is used to fix up the start up problem of Windows computer. In this article all necessary steps are articulated that describes how to use Recovery Console to recover a Windows Server 2003-based computer that does not start.

What a recovery console is? This question needs to be answered for novice not-so-techie users. Well, Recovery Console is a command-line tool that is used to repair Windows if the computer does not start correctly and hence performs computer data recovery. Using recovery console is very much easy and you can start the Recovery Console from the Windows Server 2003 CD, or at startup, if you previously installed the Recovery Console on the computer.

Steps to use the Recovery Console on a Computer that Does Not Start

Before going with Recovery Console, it is to be remembered that you must be logged on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group to perform this procedure. Moreover, in case your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may prevent you from completing this procedure. So make sure all these points are taken care of.

To run the Recovery Console, follow these steps:

  • Configure the computer to start from the CD or the DVD drive. For more information about how to do this, see the computer documentation or contact the computer manufacturer.
  • Insert the Windows Server 2003 CD in the computer's CD or DVD drive.
  • Restart the computer.
  • When you receive the message that prompts you to press any key to start from the CD, press a key to start the computer from the Windows Server 2003 CD.
  • When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press the R key to start the Recovery Console.
  • Select the Windows installation that you must access from the Recovery Console.
  • Follow the instructions that appear on the screen, type the Administrator password, and then press ENTER.
  • At the command prompt, type the appropriate Recovery Console commands to repair your Windows Server 2003 installation.
For a list of commands that are available in the Recovery Console, type help at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. You will get all available command tools.

If nothing is working out and all your windows data is in vain or say have gone lost or corrupt or damaged, you can perform computer data recovery in such times. Computer data recovery is helpful when there are pc crashes, computer crash, unbootable computer, hard disk crash, software crash, virus attacks and many other reasons that disallow data to be accessed. Free demo version of computer data recovery software gives you fair idea about the computer recovery.

Performing Outlook repair after experiencing mail stuck issues in Microsoft Outlook

As we know Outlook folders are collaboratively saved in a single PST file. When you send any email message, it first moves to Outbox folder before the message is actually sent. After sending process completes, the message is stored in Sent Items folder. However, sometimes due to PST corruption issues, the message sending process doesn’t complete successfully. Such PST file need to be restored from recent data backup or scanned by using Outlook repair tools. Taking a real time incidence, when you send an email message and it gets stuck in Outbox folder and never moved to Sent Items folder. This condition might strike you in one of the following situations:

1.You are working in offline mode while no remote connection is available. MS Outlook cannot retrieve or send any email message while in offline mode. In such cases, PST behaves like a locally stored file.

2.The message has been moved to Outlook folder but you have opened it before it could be actually sent. This occurs due the fact that doing this will change the status of the email message.

3.You are having an incompatible or outdated add-in that is preventing an email message to be sent.

4.You are sending the email message as a reply from an account that doesn’t exists. If you are trying to reply to an email message that was received with an older profile account, Outlook will use the same old account for replying. Usually, this occurs when you have changed mail accounts after receiving the email message and you try replying to a message received on old account.

5.Your Personal Address Book or PAB files is damaged or the PST file is corrupt as a result of which Outlook is not able to send the email messages.

In order to resolve these issues, you can follow the solutions given below:

1.Change the working mode of Outlook if it is working in Offline mode.

2.Alter the technique of sending an email message stuck in Outbox folder, which is open the message and click to Send. After following this technique, Outlook will get properly connected to the mail server and it delivers the required email message.

3.In order to disable the incompatible or outdates add in that you are using, go to Tools menu and open the Options dialog. Click the Other tab and select Advanced Options. Now select Add-in Manager, it will display the list of add ins that are currently activated on your Outlook profile. In order to deactivate the add-in unclear the corresponding check boxes and close the entire dialog boxes by clicking OK.

4.Never reply through an old account, move the messages required to your Inbox Folder and create and send a new email message by copying the required information to it. This will help you send the email accurately.

5.Repair your PST with the Inbox Repair Tool, if you experience any damage or corruption happened to your PST.

However, if the Inbox Repair Tool doesn’t helps you resolve the corruption situation; we suggest you to go for Outlook repair tools. These Outlook repair tools are devised to scan the damaged PST file with their powerful scanning algorithms and repair the PST files with all the data intact.