Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset also known as ERD Commmander 2005 is avialable as a 30 day evaluation version. This product provides powerful, intuitive tools that help administrators recover PCs that have become unusable, and easily identify root causes of system issues.

Components of Winternals Administrator's Pak technologies are now available as the Microsoft(R) Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 5.0, which is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance. 

Download Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset

(Changelog from Winternals AdminPak 5.0)
The Following Tools Have Been Removed
- Active Directory Explorer
- Filemon Enterprise Edition
- Insight For Active Directory
- NTFS DOS Professional
- Regmon Enterprise Edition
- Remote Recover
- System Compare
- TCPView Pro

The Following Functionality Has Been Removed
- Ability to set a password on the ERD Commander Boot CD
- Ability to browse the Internet

The Following Functionalities Have Been Added For Security, Reliability, and Supportability
- Locksmith Wizard reports events in the Security event log on the computer where the password of a user is reset
- The ERD System Restore Wizard restores more Windows configurations than the Administrator's Pak, which only reset the registry
- Windows System Restore Log
- Windows Registry
- File Operation (addition, modify, rename, delete)
- Folder Operation (addition, modify, rename, delete)
- SID/RID correct handling
- WMI Repository Support
- Components execution cleanup
- ERD Registry Editor has the ability to set permissions for well-known Windows security principals.

Supported platforms:
Windows(R) 2000 (x86), latest service pack
Windows XP (x86), latest service pack
Windows Server 2003 (x86), latest service pack

Unsupported platforms:
Windows Vista(TM) (All CPU architectures)
Windows "Longhorn" Server (All CPU architectures)
All x64 CPU architectures 

Instructions

Please download the evaluation version and execute the resulting file. Once complete, burn the resulting ISO image to a CD for use with a physical system, or use the ISO with a virtual machine.

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