To Install NTDetect

1) At the command prompt, switch to the folder where the Resource Kit tools are installed, and type installd

InstallD:

Renames the standard Ntdetect.com in the root directory of your system partition.
Copies the debug version of Ntdetect.com from %ResKit% to the root directory.

2) To see the results, shut down and restart the computer.

NTDetect displays information about the computerÆs system components, bus and adapter components, disk geometry, read-only memory (ROM) blocks, keyboard and communications (COM) port and parallel port components, mouse component, and floppy disk drive component. When detection is complete, you are prompted to press any key to display hardware information.

3) To view more information, keep pressing any key. The information displayed is similar to what is stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\Controllerx in the registry.

Example of NTDetect information for the system component

4) After all information for detected hardware is displayed, you can press SPACEBAR to use the LastKnownGood control set instead of the current control set to start the system.

This allows a system experiencing problems to revert to the last configuration that started successfully.