XP Home..Booting into recovery mode...But if i...

[theonetruegod]

Hi ppl,

XP Home OS...(don't think the hardware has anything to do with this problem but please put me right if you have an idea)

Was given this PC to fix as it was not getting to the work bench.

Look in bios, look ok.

Remembered this PC has a recovery system so booted into this mode...BUT then i thought what about system restore, so i ask the owner if the had gone back a month and used system restore? No they had not, so I quit out of the recovery screen, using the quit button and boot into safe mode and go back a month then after the reboot it goes straight into its recovery mode!

I can get around this by hitting F8, when i pick normal boot i get two options XP OS and recovery OS.

So I pick XP thinking I could just goto msconfig and turn off this other option...but am unable to see anything that looks like its to do with recovery?

So the system restore WORKED but now am stuck with having to press F8 every boot.

Then i think if i pick the option of just restoring system files from the recovery mode it will have done its business and reset its self.

No that didn't work, all that did was make me re-register XP and as there server seemed to be down it was the nice phone call.

Ideas are what i need please.

Peace.

[theonetruegod]

This fixed my problem...

Right click on my computer and choose properties, then the advanced tab. Under startup and recovery choose settings. In the new window that opens the "Startup and Recovery" window, theres an edit button under system startup section. Click that, and your boot.ini file will load. you should see two lines similar to this

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Then I delete a reference to recovery boot.

Boots fine now.

Peace.