Vista - DVD Command Prompt

Does anyone how I can get a list of the available commands at the Vista DVD
repair command prompt.
The command "help" is not supported.

TIA,
john

"john" <noone@spamless.com> wrote:

> Does anyone how I can get a list of the available commands at the Vista
> DVD repair command prompt.
> The command "help" is not supported.

It's not a direct answer to your question, but you might want to look at the
tutorial at

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial147.html

Recall that in Vista when you get into the repair dialogs you've got a WinPE
environment, so unlike the XP CMDCONS environment (which was able to run
only character-mode commands) you have many or most of the common GUI-based
maintenance commands such as NOTEPAD available to you under Vista. From the
command prompt you have a PATH variable pointing to X:\WINDOWS and
X:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (X: points to the Vista boot DVD). Your C: disk is also
available (assuming it's not corrupt) but it's not in the path.

Watch out, though, for commands that assume the local system as their
context -- such as REGEDIT. Open the Registry editor under WinPE and you're
looking at the values associated with the WinPE system, not the one on the
hard disk. ERD Commander (and various other similar products) will do this,
but they're not part of the Windows Vista kit.

A simple summary of the available commands appropriate for the repair-mode
command prompt, and invoked using the familiar command HELP wouldn't have
been a bad idea...but somehow MS didn't bother to include it.

Joe Morris

"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "john" <noone@spamless.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone how I can get a list of the available commands at the Vista
>> DVD repair command prompt.
>> The command "help" is not supported.
>
> It's not a direct answer to your question, but you might want to look at
> the tutorial at
>
> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial147.html
>
> Recall that in Vista when you get into the repair dialogs you've got a
> WinPE environment, so unlike the XP CMDCONS environment (which was able to
> run only character-mode commands) you have many or most of the common
> GUI-based maintenance commands such as NOTEPAD available to you under
> Vista. From the command prompt you have a PATH variable pointing to
> X:\WINDOWS and X:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (X: points to the Vista boot DVD).
> Your C: disk is also available (assuming it's not corrupt) but it's not in
> the path.
>
> Watch out, though, for commands that assume the local system as their
> context -- such as REGEDIT. Open the Registry editor under WinPE and
> you're looking at the values associated with the WinPE system, not the one
> on the hard disk. ERD Commander (and various other similar products) will
> do this, but they're not part of the Windows Vista kit.
>
> A simple summary of the available commands appropriate for the repair-mode
> command prompt, and invoked using the familiar command HELP wouldn't have
> been a bad idea...but somehow MS didn't bother to include it.
>
> Joe Morris
>

Thanks, knowing now that it's a PE explains a lot. I agree a HELP command
would have been nice.
I'm not confident enough yet to run GUI commands from X:, but a CD to C: to
make sure whatever changes I make are reflected to C:\ would be safer. And
thanks for the link.

john

There are a number of reference articles on Win PE on the MSFT Technet Vista
site.

CH

"john" <noone@spamless.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone how I can get a list of the available commands at the Vista
> DVD repair command prompt.
> The command "help" is not supported.
>
> TIA,
> john

"Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
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> There are a number of reference articles on Win PE on the MSFT Technet
> Vista site.
>
> CH
>

Thanks, this a great resource. I din't know you could build your customized
WinPE.

john