How do you do a system recovery on a computer running Windows XP Home edition without a disk?

Published October 23, 2010

Question by Vic L: How do you do a system recovery on a computer running Windows XP Home edition without a disk?
My computer’s disk drive (E:) is screwed. Is there a standalone program that would do a system recovery without a disk?

Best answer:

Answer by pjm90013
How to Restore a Windows XP system to a previous State using System Restore

If Windows XP will start:

Log on to Windows as an Administrator.
Click Start, point to All Programs – Accessories – System Tools – System Restore.
On the Welcome to System Restore page, click Restore my computer to an earlier time, and click Next.
Or type or paste the following command in the Start – Run box then press Enter.
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

This command can be used at the Safe Mode Command Prompt also.

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