Windows Recovery Console

[Guest]

I installed Windows recovery console and the "cmdcons" directory is there and
there is an entry for the recovery console in the boot.ini file. After
installation I thought that I would have a choice at boot-up of going to
Windows XP or to the recovery console. However, it boots directly into
Windows. How do I get to the recovery console?

 

[John John]

Check the timeout value in the boot.ini file:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
..........................

Timeout=30 means that the boot loader screen and boot options will be
available for 30 seconds before the default operating system loads. You
can make it more or less than 30 if you want.

John

 

[mhc]

Check the timeout value in the boot.ini file:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
.........................

Timeout=30 means that the boot loader screen and boot options will be
available for 30 seconds before the default operating system loads. You
can make it more or less than 30 if you want.

John

Or you can disable the timer completely with: timeout=-1