System Restore From Command Line

Date December 16, 2010 Author By kadmin Category Windows XP

If you registry is corrupt you can’t boot into Windows but you can still boot to a command prompt and then run system restore to bring back a previous version of the registry.

1. Restart your system
2. When the system first boots, type F8 to bring up the boot menu
3. Select the Safe Mode with Command Prompt option
4. Log-on as administrator if needed
5. At your command prompt type %systemroot%system32restorerstrui.exe
6. Hit Enter
6. This will open the system restore wizard…