When you have several Windows NT servers, it can become quite a task to
update the emergency repair information, and keep track of their
emergency repair disks (ERDs). You can streamline this process by
writing a script that will update the repair information without
creating an ERD, and then copy it to a folder on a central server. If
you do this for all of your servers, you'll never have to waste time
looking for a server's ERD again. If you have a problem, you can then
just go to the central server and copy the repair information for the
server on which you're working to a blank floppy.
To copy the repair information without creating an ERD, execute the
command rdisk /s-. The /s in the rdisk command first creates a folder
named repair below the c:\winnt folder, and then copies the server's
repair information there. By adding the hyphen after /s, we prevent
Windows NT from attempting to create a floppy disk after copying the
repair information to a floppy disk.
If you want to automate this process, you should use a batch file
similar to the following:
@echo off
C:\winnt\system32\rdisk.exe /s-
copy C:\winnt\repair \\centralservername\c$\ERDinfo\servername
This batch file assumes that you've installed Windows NT on drive C:.
We're copying the repair information to a folder for that server within
the share named ERDinfo on a central server. Keep in mind that you
should replace "centralservername" with the name of the computer on
which you want to centralize the repair information for your servers.