User manual WINTERNALS ERD COMMANDER 2002

[. . . ] ERD Commander 2002 User's Guide Winternals Software LP 3101 Bee Caves Road, Suite 150 Austin, Texas 78746 (512) 330-9130 (512) 330-9131 Fax www. winternals. com Copyright © 2002 Winternals Software LP ERD Commander 2002 Table of Contents Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i 1 2 3 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Overview of Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ERD Commander 2002 Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] ERD Commander 2002 Explorer obtains icon information for file being repaired. If the Software hive is corrupt or missing Explorer displays only basic icons. Note that, unlike the default behavior of Windows Explorer, ERD Commander 2002 Explorer displays hidden folders and files (those with the hidden attribute set), displaying them with faded icons. Also unlike Windows Explorer, you cannot drag-and-drop items between different Explorer windows. The following sections describe the property dialogs associated with different items, as well as how to map network shares to local drive letters. Winternals Software LP Page 18 ERD Commander 2002 9 Volume Properties Selecting the Properties menu entry from a volume's context menu (accessible by right-clicking on a volume) or the Properties entry in the File menu launches a dialog (see Figure 9-1) that displays information about a volume, including statistics on total size and free space. See Chapter 11 for a description of the Reset Permissions button. Figure 9-1 Winternals Software LP Page 19 ERD Commander 2002 10 Folder Properties You can view detailed information (see Figure 10-1) about a folder by choosing the Properties menu entry from the folder's context menu or the Properties menu entry in the File menu when the folder selected. The Map Network Drive button enables when you select a folder that represents a network share, allowing you to map the share to a local drive letter. Find more information in Mapping Network Drives in Chapter 12. See Chapter 11 for a description of the Reset Permissions button. Editing a folder's name in the properties dialog and then applying the change renames the folder. Similarly, you can change the attributes of the folder in the Attributes area of the dialog, and use the Set Child Attributes to apply a set of attributes to all of the files and folders contained within the selected folder. Figure 10-1 Winternals Software LP Page 20 ERD Commander 2002 11 Resetting Permissions One cause for a system becoming unbootable is that permissions have been set on NTFS folders or directories that prevent the operating system itself from accessing files it requires for the boot process. The Reset Permissions button on a volume or folder Properties dialog changes the permissions on the volume folder, and optionally on child folders, to a security descriptor that gives the Everyone group (all users) full access. NOTE: Because resetting permissions makes folders and directories fully accessible to any user, opening potential security holes, you should lockdown the appropriate folders and directories after the system is booted normally. Winternals Software LP Page 21 ERD Commander 2002 12 Mapping Network Drives ERD Commander 2002 Explorer provides a Network Neighborhood folder for you to navigate to file shares. However, because only NetBIOS browsing is supported, in some cases it may be more convenient to access a file share through a mapped drive letter. To map file shares to a drive letter, use the Map Network Drive menu item in the Tools menu or the Map Network Drive button on a file share's properties dialog. This method allows mapping of shares even on networks without NetBIOS, where shares are not visible in Network Neighborhood. The Map Network Drives dialog (Figure 12-1) requires that you specify a free local drive letter, the path to the network file share that you want to map, and, optionally, username and password information that Explorer should use to connect to the share. The network share path can consist of DNS (e. g. \\system. mydomain. com), NetBIOS (\\System) or TCP/IP (\\192. 168. 3. 101) computer addresses. Disconnect a mapped drive either by selecting the drive you wish to disconnect and selecting Disconnect from its context menu, or by selecting the drive in the Disconnect Network Drive dialog, accessed from the Tools menu. Winternals Software LP Page 22 ERD Commander 2002 Figure 12-1 Winternals Software LP Page 23 ERD Commander 2002 13 Adding a Domain ERD Commander 2002 requires you to enter the names of domains that you wish to browse via ERD Commander 2002 Explorer. The Add Domain feature is accessed via the Tools menu of ERD Commander 2002 Explorer. Winternals Software LP Page 24 ERD Commander 2002 14 Using File Search You can search for files on the hard disks of the system that you are repairing using ERD Commander 2002 File Search (see Figure 14-1). ERD Commander 2002 File Search has an interface that is nearly identical to that of the Windows 2000 File Search utility, and is accessible via the Start menu and from the context-menu of folders within ERD Commander 2002 Explorer. As with the Windows 2000 File Search, the search pattern you enter can contain any subset of the file or path names for which you wish to search, and can include the asterisk (*) wildcard character. [. . . ] It should also be noted that different Windows installations provide different versions of many commands, so a particular External Command found on one system may work, while that found on another system may not. For these reasons Winternals Software does not warrant or support use of commands other than those found on your ERD Commander 2002 product CD. ERD Commander 2002 displays a dialog box warning you any time you launch an external command from the ERD Commander 2002 shell or an ERD Commander 2002 command prompt. If you wish to suppress the external command dialog for commands launched from within the ERD Commander 2002 command prompt, for instance when you execute batch files that spawn them, you can set the AllowExternalCommand environment variable to a value of "yes". 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