W2K recovery console

I’ve installed the recovery console onto a 2000 server and workstation but I can’t seem to access any directory except c:\winnt. All other directory or hard drive I get an ‘access denied’ error. What good is this recovery console ?????? The MS books says I can copy, delete, remove files from my local hard drive but they never mentioned that I can ONLY access c:\winnt. Is this correct or am I missing something ?

Thanks in advance.