SOFTPAQ NUMBER:  SP2877
PART NUMBER:  N/A
FILE NAME:   REPAIR.BAT
TITLE:  Create Windows NT 3.51 Repair Disk 
VERSION:  N/A
LANGUAGE:  English

CATEGORY:  Software Solutions/Servers

PRODUCTS AFFECTED:  Compaq ProLiant and ProSignia servers

OPERATING SYSTEM:  Microsoft Windows NT 3.51

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION:  SmartStart assisted installation of 
Windows NT 3.51

EFFECTIVE DATE:  5 March 1997

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED:  Yes

SUPERSEDES:  N/A

DESCRIPTION:  
Versions of SmartStart prior to 3.2x created an Emergency Repair 
Diskette automatically at the end of a fully assisted installation 
of Windows NT 3.51.  SmartStart Versions 3.20A and 3.21 do not 
create a Repair Diskette automatically when used for this same 
type of installation.  The Repair Disk Utility (RDISK) is used 
instead.  When using SmartStart 3.20A or 3.21, the RDISK Utility 
may fail when the user attempts to run it manually after the 
installation.  After it formats the diskette, RDISK may fail with 
the following error message: 

"Repair disk utility could not copy all files to the emergency 
disk.  One or more files were not found."

The utility will fail if any of the following configuration files 
are missing from the \%systemroot%\repair subdirectory:
Autoexec.nt
Config.nt
Software._
System._
Default._
Sam._
Security._

The files likely to be missing are the Default, Sam, and Security 
files.  These files can be recreated by running RDISK with the /s 
parameter.

The REPAIR.BAT batch file backs up all of the files in the 
\%systemroot%\repair subdirectory (usually \winnt35\repair) 
to a temporary directory location, and then executes 
the Repair Disk Utility as follows: 
RDISK /s

HOW TO USE:

1.  Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and 
change to that directory.  The file that is downloaded is 
SP2877.EXE.

2.  From that drive and directory, execute the SoftPaq file:
SP2877 [ENTER]
The following files should be created:
REPAIR.BAT
README.TXT

3.  After the files are created, you may delete the downloaded 
file SP2877.EXE if you wish.

4.  Execute REPAIR.BAT from a command prompt to create the Repair
Disk.  Refer to README.TXT for further instructions.

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