Using Recovery Console from a Different XP CD-ROM Disk

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I need to replace a corrupted ntfs.sys on an OEM system that won't boot.
OS is XP Home OEM.
The system didn't come with an XP CD_ROM disk, only a recovery disk
with a system image.
Can I use my XP Home retail or XP Pro retail CD-ROM disk to boot into
the Recovery Console and copy ntfs.sys from one of those disks?
Is the version of the Recovery Console the same across OEM/retail,
Home/Pro, Orig/SP1/SP2 ?
Is the version of ntfs.sys the same across OEM/retail, Home/Pro,
Orig/SP1/SP2 ?
If not, is there somewhere in C:\Windows that I should browse to to find an
uncorrupted copy of the file?

Thanks,

M.B.

 

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Yes that's fine to use to start the recovery console but use the file from a
machine that is at the same SP level or download and extract-only the
service pack files and use this as the source for your repair.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Marianne B." wrote:
|I need to replace a corrupted ntfs.sys on an OEM system that won't boot.
| OS is XP Home OEM.
| The system didn't come with an XP CD_ROM disk, only a recovery disk
| with a system image.
| Can I use my XP Home retail or XP Pro retail CD-ROM disk to boot into
| the Recovery Console and copy ntfs.sys from one of those disks?
| Is the version of the Recovery Console the same across OEM/retail,
| Home/Pro, Orig/SP1/SP2 ?
| Is the version of ntfs.sys the same across OEM/retail, Home/Pro,
| Orig/SP1/SP2 ?
| If not, is there somewhere in C:\Windows that I should browse to to find
an
| uncorrupted copy of the file?
|
| Thanks,
|
| M.B.
|
|
|