Windows Advanced Options Menu - Need Help

[Guest]

I am having a problem that I can't quite figure out the answer too so I thought I might get some inout here, here it is:

I recently moved and all my software if packed away somewhere unknown to me I tried to boot my Windows XP Home edition up on my laptop and all I get is the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" and no I am not pressing F8. I have tried all the boot options and it just returns me to the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" So, is there a way that I can get out of that menu to a command prompt so that I might be able to try and solve my problem there, or does anyone have a simpler answer then this?? I do not have any boot disks though I am frantically looking for them. PLEASE HELP!!

 

[jono]

Try re-booting the machine and going into safe mode once
in safe mode click restart this might prompt windows to
boot into normal mode. Also verify you don't have a
sticky key.

-----Original Message-----
I am having a problem that I can't quite figure out the

answer too so I thought I might get some inout here, here
it is:

I recently moved and all my software if packed away

somewhere unknown to me I tried to boot my Windows XP
Home edition up on my laptop and all I get is the "Windows
Advanced Options Menu" and no I am not pressing F8. I have
tried all the boot options and it just returns me to
the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" So, is there a way
that I can get out of that menu to a command prompt so
that I might be able to try and solve my problem there, or
does anyone have a simpler answer then this?? I do not
have any boot disks though I am frantically looking for
them. PLEASE HELP!!

 

[Guest]

When I try to boot it into safe mode it just goes back to the F8 menu, all options just return me to the F8 menu, perhaps the key is stuck down and I didn't knotice...I will take a look at it again and see.

 

[Guest]

The F8 key is not stuck down, it functions normally.

 

[OldKenGoat]

I am having a problem that I can't quite figure out the answer too so
I thought I might get some inout here, here it is:

I recently moved and all my software if packed away somewhere unknown
to me I tried to boot my Windows XP Home edition up on my laptop
and all I get is the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" and no I am not
pressing F8. I have tried all the boot options and it just returns me
to the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" So, is there a way that I can
get out of that menu to a command prompt so that I might be able to
try and solve my problem there, or does anyone have a simpler answer
then this?? I do not have any boot disks though I am frantically
looking for them. PLEASE HELP!!

Try here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prmb_tol_ustn.asp

 

[Guest]

Apparently the menu I am getting is actually the "Startup recovery menu" from there any option that I choose just lands me back at that menu. Is there a way to escape out of that menu to a command prompt, or am out of luck until I find my boot disks??

----- OldKenGoat wrote: -----

Try here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prmb_tol_ustn.asp