Background: Due to significant differences between the user interface in Windows 8 and the user interface in previous versions of Windows, new Windows 8 users may have difficulty locating tools including the Command Prompt.
The instructions below describe how to access the Command Prompt from both the Start Screen and Desktop interfaces of Windows 8. From the Start screen, right-click or tap to display the App Bar. For the purposes of this registry editing session this name is just a temporary placeholder, so you can use any name that you want.
For my example, I am going to just use the word Test, as shown in Figure G. To continue, click OK. At this point, the entire hive is loaded into the Registry Editor so that you can make any changes that you hope will allow your Windows 8 system to boot up normally. After you make changes, you will then need to navigate back up the tree and select the Test hive, just as shown in Figure H. At this point, any changes that you made are now incorporated in the registry from your Windows installation.
To continue, close the Registry Editor and then close the Command Prompt window. When you do, you'll return to the main Recovery Disk menu where you can select the Continue tile, which will reboot the system and start Windows 8 with the changes that you made registry.
If your Windows 8 system stopped booting up normally before you had a chance to make a current backup of your data, chances are that the first thing that you would want to do is backup your data files. Well, if you look back at the command line tools shown in Table A, you'll find several commands that you can use to back up your data: Copy, Robocopy, and Xcopy.
However, if you're like most users, you'd rather work from a GUI than a command prompt when it comes to copying hundreds of files. Fortunately, the Windows Recovery Environment allows you to run Notepad. How is Notepad going to help you copy files you may be thinking? Well, in the majority of Windows applications, the Open and Save as dialog boxes are essentially pared down versions of File Explorer.
As such, you can use the Open dialog box just like File Explorer and will be able to easily copy all of your data files to a backup drive. Once you have booted into the Recovery Environment connect a flash drive or external USB drive to your system. Now, access the Command Prompt window and type notepad. Now, use the Computer icon to locate your Windows installation drive.
Refer to using the bcdedit find "osdevice" command as described above. To continue, navigate to your user profile folder, as shown in Figure K. Then, right click on the folder or folders containing the files that you want to backup and then select the Send to command.
When you do, you can select your flash drive or external USB drive. When you do, your files will be safely copied. Do you think that being able to edit the registry and backup files from the Windows 8 Recovery Drive Command Prompt are valuable tricks? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you.
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