To set this up I have used a VMWare virtual machine, very useful especially when you need to do a roll back because you messed up the BCD (it happened to me a few times).įirst we install the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset that is stored on the MDOP DVD on a Windows 7 client. In a later post I plan to explain how to actually replace the Windows 7 default Recovery Environment with DART. Today I am going to show you how you can install DART on your local system and add an additional boot menu option. DART is a superset of the Windows Recovery Environment which is installed by default with Windows 7. One interesting concept they speak about is to deploy DART to the client so that it can be started through the Windows 7 Boot menu. If you’re not familiar I recommend watching the TechEd presentation or read more here. The Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset is part of the MDOP Toolset. Presentation video and slides from this session can be found here (TechEd USA) or here (TechEd Europe) Mysteries about the Tunguska incident remain, but scientists have said the impact was most likely caused by a space rock measuring 164 to 262 feet across.Įven much smaller space rocks can cause widespread damage.Last weekend I went through the Microsoft TechEd 2010 presentations and one of the presentations that got my attention was “Keeping Windows Running Effeciently with the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset”. The incident, which came to be known as the 'Tunguska explosion,' flattened trees over 500,000 acres of uninhabited forest, according to NASA. The largest asteroid impact in recorded history took place 114 years ago, when a space rock exploded over a remote part of Siberia in 1908. The incident annihilated the dinosaurs and killed almost three-quarters of all the plant and animal species that were living on Earth at the time. The best-known example of a cataclysmic impact occurred around 66 million years ago, when the Chicxulub asteroid, thought to have been 6 to 10 miles wide, slammed into Earth and triggered a sudden mass extinction. Although the prospect of 'killer asteroids' may sound far-fetched, the threat is all too real, said Bruce Betts, the chief scientist at the Planetary Society, a nonprofit organization that conducts research, advocacy and outreach to promote space exploration.

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