boot.ini

[George]

My ststem is an HP Pavilion a257c with WIN XP Home
Edition.
I did a Full System Recovery using my created Recovery
DVD. During recovery it said that the Recovery partition
was reformatted and reinstalled, however upon running
MSCONFIG and selecting the BOOT.INI tab and then
selecting Check All Boot Paths it returns a message "It
appears that the following line in the BOOT.INI does not
refer to a valid operating
system: "C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Recovery
Console" /cmdcons" Would you like to remove it from the
BOOT.INI file?' Won't removing this entry disable the
Recovery partition? Everything seems to be runing okay,
but I am concerned about the significance of this
message. HP said removing the entry won't affect
anything????? What will removing that entry do to my
system and the Recovery Console? I did not get that
message before I ran the Full System Recovery. I do have
a CMDCONS folder. I re-ran "i386\winnt32 /cmdcons", but
no change. I am able to access the Recovery Console on
boot-up by selecting it on the boot-up screen.

Suggestions, please.
Thank you, George

 

[Nicholas]

Q. "Won't removing this entry disable the Recovery partition?"

A. No, it will only remove the invalid boot.ini entry created
when you used the HP System Recovery procedure.


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Nicholas

| My ststem is an HP Pavilion a257c with WIN XP Home
| Edition.
| I did a Full System Recovery using my created Recovery
| DVD. During recovery it said that the Recovery partition
| was reformatted and reinstalled, however upon running
| MSCONFIG and selecting the BOOT.INI tab and then
| selecting Check All Boot Paths it returns a message "It
| appears that the following line in the BOOT.INI does not
| refer to a valid operating
| system: "C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Recovery
| Console" /cmdcons" Would you like to remove it from the
| BOOT.INI file?' Won't removing this entry disable the
| Recovery partition? Everything seems to be runing okay,
| but I am concerned about the significance of this
| message. HP said removing the entry won't affect
| anything????? What will removing that entry do to my
| system and the Recovery Console? I did not get that
| message before I ran the Full System Recovery. I do have
| a CMDCONS folder. I re-ran "i386\winnt32 /cmdcons", but
| no change. I am able to access the Recovery Console on
| boot-up by selecting it on the boot-up screen.
|
| Suggestions, please.
| Thank you, George