The Recovery Console can be installed after Windows XP Service Pack 2
has been installed.
Basically, you must temporarily replace the XPSP1 c:\i386\WINNT32.EXE
file with the XPSP2 WINNT32.EXE file, then you run the
"c:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons" command. No other changes or Registry
edits should be necessary.
There are step-by-step instructions on the following page:
Microsoft Windows XP FAQ
21. Recovery Console SP2 Revision
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#021
Under step number 21-4, click the link "SP2 work around fix". In case
the above link is broken, here's the text of the workaround [I've added
a few additional comments in brackets]:
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Work around compliments of "Jon" from the msnews newsgroups.
You can install Recovery Console, AFTER SP2 installation, via the
following workaround...
For this you need the full network version of SP2. Downloadable from
here
<
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en>
1. Open a command prompt in the folder containing the SP2 installer and
type "WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe -x". Choose a folder to extract
the files to e.g. file:///c:/SP2files [You can also burn these files to
a CD].
2. Make a backup of the file winnt32.exe in c:\windows\i386 [or in
c:\i386].
3. Replace the winnt32.exe file in c:\windows\i386 with the identically
named file in C:\sp2files\i386 (or in the i386 folder in the folder
where you extracted the files.)
4. Open a command prompt at c:\windows\i386. Type "winnt32.exe
/cmdcons" [you can also use Start > Run > "c:\windows\i386\winnt32.exe
/cmdcoms"]. Recovery Console should install (Ignore the first error
message, if any.) [Cancel the "Microsoft Dynamic Update" if it appears,
and select "Skip this step and continue Windows installation".]
5. Replace the winnt32.exe in c:\windows\i386 with its original version
(created in step 2.)
Hope this works for you
Jon
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I've done this twice on separate XP machines and it works fine.