ronniebuss :
I found an article to switch the boot on my Gateway laptop running XP SP3 from the regular HD to the recovery partition. I went into the C prompt and typed compmgmt.somethingorother and changed the boot. It worked and the computer appeared to reinitialize. I needed to do this after the thing was screwed up by some bad software. The problem is the article is gone and the computer keeps trying to recover. How can I switch the boot back? I am super computer illiterate if you post a response. lol
My guess is you modified the boot.ini file. To boot Windows normally, it should have an entry like
"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="Microsoft Windows x32 " /fast detect." and it must be the 1st entry after
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Boot into safe mode:
To access boot.ini file:
Clcik Start > Run > then type "msconfig" without the quotes in box.
Click the bootini Tab
You can highlight that entry and click the "Move up" button so it is 1st under
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Click ok to exit. -
In the future, don't mess with things !
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