Re: error recovery screen

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 22:58:14 -0500, adaml wrote:

> I'm stuck in the windows error recovery screen and I can't get out of
> it. I was getting a bunch of error messages saying that applications
> failed then got the blue screen with the system repair message. After I
> attempted to go through the system repair, I got the message that the
> root problem was the registry being corrupt and to restart the computer
> to allow windows to repair the problem. I did that and got the windows
> error recovery screen giving me two options of doing a system repair or
> to start windows normally. I went through other threads and tried to go
> to the BIOS and change the startup to CDROM. got the same message.
> Please help, I am completely lost on what to do.

Setting the BIOS to start with CD-ROM has no effect unless you have a
bootable CD-ROM in the drive...

In my experience, taking the system repair option will help - but it takes
a very long time - long enough to make you nervous. IIRC, it was *well*
over a half hour in my case.

And it doesn't always succeed...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)