HP Pavillion boot.ini help

[gcssys]

Have a Pavillion 752n that got messed up. Need to put back the boot.ini file(s) that contain the HP mods so that pressing F10 brings up the HP System Recovery. Anyone have an HP that would post contents of the boot.ini files on the boot drive and the recovery partition.

 

[linney]

Are you sure that F10 is related to anything that may or may not be in the Boot.ini file? Pressing F10 during Boot up before Windows attempts to load, I would have thought would automatically bring you to the Recovery options.

Have you spoken with HP support?

Available switch options for the Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 Boot.ini files

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833721&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console for Windows XP (Q307654)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q307/6/54.asp

HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows XP (Q289022)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q289/0/22.asp

A Discussion About the Bootcfg Command and Its Uses (Q291980)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q291/9/80.asp

How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP (Q314079)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q314/0/79.asp

Q305595 - HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q305/5/95.asp