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LiVista Rescup

What is LiVista Rescup?

LiVista Rescup is a program that you can store on a USB pen drive or floppy disk and run from within the Vista Setup. It will automagically load a nice environment (with taskbar, explorer etc.) you can use as a rescue system.

Information about LiVista Rescup

Blog - Thread in BootLand Forum - Downloads

Usage

• Copy rescup.bat and rescup.dat onto a USB stick or onto a floppy drive.
• Boot Windows Vista Setup. When using an USB key, attach the USB key before booting the setup. Wait until the welcome screen appears.
  
• Confirm the first two dialogs, by clicking "Next" and "Install Now".
  
• The background changes color and the product key dialog appears.
• Now press Shift+F10.
  
• You may now run notepad and use its File|Open command to determine the drive letter of your USB stick. Close notepad again.
  
• When using a floppy, insert the floppy now and enter A:\rescup at the prompt. When using an USB key, run L:\rescup at the prompt (replace the drive letter appropriately)
  
• Select the Edition of Windows Vista to use the files from and press OK.
  
• Select additional components to load and press OK.


• Wait until you see the task bar appears
• You can now load an explorer by selecting "Computer" from the start menu.


• You can also run any portable apps you have on your USB key.
• When finished with using the rescue system, open the start menu and enter
  x:\rescup\rescman.exe /shutdown
  to shutdown the PC.
  

More information

If you have any questions or if you want to contribute, you can contact me by email:
rescupwebsite.mihi42 (at) safersignup.com

Contributing

See the SourceForge page.