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October 16th, 2008 01:00

Boot Options greyed out in MSCONFIG

I am running on an:

Inspiron 9400 with XP MCE Ver. 2002 SP3. 

Intel  T2500

60GB hard drive

2GB RAM

 

I just noticed that the boot options on the boot.ini tab in MSCONFIG are all greyed out and I cannot figure out for the life of me.   The boot tab has this in the window:

 

[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="help"

 

I do have  the pc set up for selective start up because there were too many annoying things on start that I could not remove (another frustrating issue).  Any help on either of these issues would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

 

Dan

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    Sofu

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    Posted October 16th, 2008 05:00

    Go to this link for a Microsoft article about the Bootcfg command and its uses.

     

    I suggest you use the command bootcfg /rebuild

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    Sofu

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    Posted October 17th, 2008 04:00

    Dan

    You are prompted to enter your Administrator password. By default it is created blank so just press Enter.

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    danodob

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    Posted October 17th, 2008 04:00

    Thanks for the quick response.  I did run into a snag.   The 9400 has to admin accounts on it that are password protected.  However, neither password gains me access to the recovery console.  Is there something I am missing?

     

    Dan

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    danodob

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    Posted October 17th, 2008 12:00

    I tried that also.  I was really confused by that.  I will give it another shot this afternoon when I am back home.  Worse case scenario,  it has been forever since I reinstalled...
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    judsinspiron

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    Posted October 22nd, 2008 23:00

    To change anything in XP MSCONFIG you need to have admin rights to the PC, if you dont know the admin passwords then you are stuffed, even the recovery console requires the admin password.

     

    There are ways to get round an admin password but you will need to do a google on it as i cant discuss it here

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    danodob

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    Posted October 23rd, 2008 18:00

    I have Admin rights on both accounts.  That is what is confusing me.  I guess I will keep working on it.

     

    Thanks,

    Dan

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