At boot one of the options is the Recovery Console...but I do not have it in my OS.

"Installation: The recovery console is not installed by default (it's only 7 Mb), install from the W2K CD with the command: D:\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons. The recovery console can also be run from the Win 2K boot floppies."

It is not on my Install CD at that location. Could someone please contact me privately so that we can link up and you can send me the files...or can someone direct me to where I can download the setup files for that Console.

b1caez02[at]cogeco.ca

Is this from the hard disk boot?

It should be an option if you boot from the install disc. It will need to make repairs from another boot source than the one you are trying to repair anyway.

Yes, I suppose it is...

Every time I reinstall windows something new happens or something changes...it is as if hidden stuff does or does not chose to expose itself at every reinstall.

I boot up...then the BIOS stuff displays and at the bottom of the black DOS screen it says tap any key to Boot from CD, twice, and then times out and fires up to the next screen which offers the option to begin from XP Home or Windows Recovery. I hit Windows recovery once, and discovered that I don't have such a thing to rely on. It is the same as when the computer first starts up and their are the options across the bottom of the page re: F8 and F12 etc. There is a recover option there, but it does not work either...never has since I had the system built for me.

This whole last black DOS screen never appeared before, only since I last had to reinstall Windows. It is not really bothering me, just an annoying unnecessary step in the startup process. I'd like to kill this page and just get on with things...especially, if no recovery console is available.

Ah, it's always a mystery, that Windows thingy!

This doesn't sound like it's booting to a CD.
Some manufactures buid in a recovery option that will read from a hidden partition and restore the computer from the hidden partition.
It sounds like the hard drive or operating system was replaced and the hidden partition not recreated.
Check the BIOS settings and see of there is an option to remove this boot windows/restore message.

A hard boot is off the hard drive, not a CD... It is booting off the hard drive...no problems... It is just that I was wondering why it gave an option for a Recovery Console when the Recovery Console does not exist.

If it's coming from the BIOS it has nothing to do with anything that may or may not be on the hard drive. Check the BIOS to see if there is an option to enable/disable this type of message.

The other possibility is that the operating system was installed from a disk that would normally create the restore files. In this case you would have to know how the hard drive and boot sector was modified to display this.

But it still sounds most likely to be a BIOS feature which may or may not have an option to change it.

I agree, but I just thought that I would ask.

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