Hardware Profile/Configuration Recovery Menu - cant get rid of it

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Hi,
I've upgraded Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro. It's the first time I've
upgraded from Windows 98, i've installed and repaired XP many times,
however, this is baffling me.

Whenever I start Windows XP I get this 2nd menu: (Altho a bit blurry I hope
you can read it)
http://www.cybertron.pow.vg/temp/xpProStartup.jpg

I cannot get rid of it at all. I've run msconfig and started in diagnostic
mode, but it made no difference. I've never come accross it before, and
technet, nor the MS website seems to have heard of this Hardware
Profile/Configuration Recovery Menu, nor does my MCSE book..

Its a Pentium 3 900, 512KB RAM, 10GB free hard disk space.
I would do a fresh install, but I really want to find out what this error is
incase I come across it again.

Many Thanks
Richard.
 
Just to add to my original post:

The Service packs do not make any difference.
The boot log shows no problems.
When pressing F8 and going into safe mode, it gets to loading:
System32\Config\System
then loads the 2nd menu.

Thanks
 
I solved my own problem eventually by going into the System Properties >
Hardware Tab and removing one of the entries and turning off the menu for
each entry, I expect one of those was the original 98 hardware setup, im not
too sure.

I had a feeling it was going to be more obvious than previously thought.

I hope this helps anyone else who had/has the same issue.

Richard.

Rich said:
Just to add to my original post:

The Service packs do not make any difference.
The boot log shows no problems.
When pressing F8 and going into safe mode, it gets to loading:
System32\Config\System
then loads the 2nd menu.

Thanks

Rich said:
Hi,
I've upgraded Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro. It's the first time I've
upgraded from Windows 98, i've installed and repaired XP many times,
however, this is baffling me.

Whenever I start Windows XP I get this 2nd menu: (Altho a bit blurry I hope
you can read it)
http://www.cybertron.pow.vg/temp/xpProStartup.jpg

I cannot get rid of it at all. I've run msconfig and started in diagnostic
mode, but it made no difference. I've never come accross it before, and
technet, nor the MS website seems to have heard of this Hardware
Profile/Configuration Recovery Menu, nor does my MCSE book..

Its a Pentium 3 900, 512KB RAM, 10GB free hard disk space.
I would do a fresh install, but I really want to find out what this
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