| I have no more ability to boot into the safe mode menu.
| My PC is a 99 Gateway pentium III, 500 mhz, with 2 hard
| drives, 384 mb RAM, and a dual boot system with XP Home,
| and Linux Suse 9.0. I ran the error checking and the
| system file checker tool as well. Also I had the Recovery
| Console installed as a boot option as well, and it is no
| longer there either. I did run a scan for viruses and for
| spyware, none found. So how can I restore the windows
| advanced options menu with safe mode and the others ?
Check your boot.ini timeout value. One way to do that is to open
the System tool in Control Panel, and then click the Advanced tab
in the System Properties dialog box. Under the "Startup and
Recovery" section click the Settings button. Then next to "Time
to display list of operating systems:" make certain a value other
than 0 (zero) is selected.
Since you are running a dual-boot system with a Microsoft OS and
Linux Suse, I suggest that you research the following suggestions
before you try them. You can find peer-to-peer support for
Windows XP: Setup and Deployment issues/technologies in the
following newsgroup:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment
AKA - Windows XP: Setup and Deployment
The following page has links you can click to access the
newsgroup with your Web browser, or with a Network News Transfer
Protocol (NNTP)-based newsreader such as Outlook Express.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Management Technologies Newsgroups
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/newsgroups/management/default.mspx
- Use msconfig to "Check All Boot Paths". For more information
about this function see the following documentation:
[April 23, 2001]
How do I use Msconfig to modify boot.ini?
By John Savill
InstantDoc #20784
John Savill's FAQ for Windows
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/20784/20784.html
For more information about msconfig see the following Microsoft
Knowledge Base article:
KB310560 - How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig
Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;310560
- Use the Bootcfg utility in the Recovery Console to correct the
Boot.ini file. For more information see the following Microsoft
Knowledge Base article:
KB291980 - A Discussion About the Bootcfg Command and Its Uses
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;291980
MORE INFORMATION: If only one [Operating Systems] section
boot option exists in your boot.ini file, then no Boot menu is
displayed when you start your computer. For more information see
the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
KB242443 - Boot Menu Is Not Displayed and Timeout
Value Is Not Used
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;242443