Posts Tagged ‘Recovery Tools’

Microsoft calls the Command Prompt in the System Recovery Options “the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE)”. In this article we call it what it is, a command prompt.

If you need instructions on starting the recovery tools there is a step by step guide here. Once the System Recovery Options menu is displayed click Command Prompt:

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In this article you will be using a tool called Bootrec.exe to repair A) a corrupt master boot record (MBR), B) a damaged boot sector or C) Windows 7′s Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store.

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