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Chapter 21. Recovering from System Failures

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N THIS, THE FINAL CHAPTER IN THE SAGA of deploying Windows Server 2003 throughout an enterprise, the time has come to talk about the inevitability of disaster. Throughout the book we've seen how to deal with problems, big and small, that can crop up when implementing the functions and features in Windows Server 2003, but in this chapter we'll look at how to handle serious problems that cause a system to crash and crash hard. We'll see how to figure out what happened and how to take steps to keep it from happening again.

The chapter covers the following:

• Backing up and restoring system and data files




• Using Safe Mode to restore stable operations




• Recovering from Blue Screen stops




• Out-of-band server management




• Using Safe Mode




• Restoring functionality with the Last Known Good Configuration




• Working with the Recovery Console