Comments on: Perform a System Restore Rollback Offline on a Non-Bootable Windows XP Computer

By: ma

ma — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:51:56 +0000

Link is broken.

I need to get ERD! Thx

By: Siba

Siba — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:55:11 +0000

Hi,

My WinXP doesnt start Explorer.exe and because of Malware TaskManager is disabled. I also dont have admin rights to my Laptop since its a company provided system.

I tried downloading the executable mentioned to another PC which had WinXP and loaded the ISO image to USB drive.

Changed the Boot to locate USB first.

Getting the error “Missing Operating System”.

Please help

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:15:28 +0000

Worked EXACTLY as U described and saved my son’s laptop! After searching MS (what a joke) and everywhere for help, this solved the problem in 5 minutes. I CAN NOT thank you enough!

PS. Problem was: Can not log in to profiles on Windows XP Background blinks and system logs back off (I just wanted to add that for the poor people searching like I was!!)

By: Geoff Adams

Geoff Adams — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:17:42 +0000

Hi – thanks. I forgot to say that this happened immediately I started.
However, I re-downloaded, burnt a new disc, and it worked.
But now, when I start System Restore, I get the message “ERD System Restore could not locate the target offline OS”.
The only drives shown are A – Floppy, D – CD Drive, and X – ERD – CD drive.
Any ideas, please?
Geoff

By: Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:33:40 +0000

@Geoff, ERD is available as a 30-day Evaluation pack which works 30 days *from* the date or writing the ISO to CD.

By: Geoff Adams

Geoff Adams — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:01:42 +0000

Hi – your tutorial was excellent. However, i had the same problem as Luis (Nov 3 2008) – the time had run out. I could find no way to overcome this. do you have a solution by any chance?
Fingers crossed!
Geoff

By: todo

todo — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:17:14 +0000

Thank you for these instructions. I was able to successfully repair our Windows XP – SP2 installation using ERD Commander. I actually found it unnecessary to do the second system restore. First I ran memtest86+ to make sure the RAM memory was not defective. Then I used the Seagate Hard Drive diagnostic program to do a complete scan of the hard drive. After ruling out hardware problems, ERD commander let me do a system restore and then restarted the computer under normal Windows operating system.

Great tutorial for those of us who need a detailed step by step (with pictures) to feel confident making such technical changes to their computer.

Thanks.

By: How to Restore the Registry Hives from a System Restore Snapshot in Windows XP - The Winhelponline Blog

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:39:24 +0000

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By: robert

robert — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:45:21 +0000

This finally fixed my computer that was in a continuous loop after an upload evidently crashed it, I couldn’t get out. The CD build via the instructions above finally did the trick (I could not even get a Bart PE disk to work, it was ignored!). The only footnote to the instructions above is that after using the ERD Commander program to do the first System Restore, which is a partial restore, then in order to get out of the ERD loop you have to eject the ERD CD disk you made before windows will start/reboot again on its own, then you need to do the second System Restore, which is a complete restore, per the instructions. It worked like a charm for me after finally getting the ERD to eject after restarting from inside the ERD program. I also needed to download the ISO small program for my CD burner to work with the ERD download.

By: Luis

Luis — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:11:27 +0000

well, when I boot using the DaRT CD it says the evaluation period hasfinished, and i can’t do nothing =/