To be prepared for a day I hope never comes, I downloaded and installed Norton Bootable Recovery Tool (NBRT). I did not add any drivers; at startup the program searched for a local network, but was unable to find an appropriate driver. The main screen displayed the the two scan options, but the Norton Power Eraser option was dimmed with the subtext “You need a wired Internet connection to activate this alternative”. Despite all the drivers included (in SET1.7Z & SET2.7Z), I had to manually add a 32bit driver for my Realtek network card.
I am running a 64bit Windows, but the WinPE used by Norton, is a 32bit environment and you have to add 32bit drivers (in my case rt86win7 in stead of Rt64win7 which is used in normal mode). I recreated the recovery media, and this time I got a recovery tool with full functionality. The wizard/tool is translated to several languages; my language was automatically used. Excellent!
The tool has an option for opening a CMD window; excellent again, but I am afraid Norton has forgotten that not all of us use an en-US keyboard. It is very difficult to navigate when the colon on the backslash is “gone”. It is NOT possible to use Shift-Alt to switch keyboard settings in this WinPE environment.
At last I have reached my question: How can I modify the keyboard settings in NBRT?