Originally posted by Maveric169
Yea it does work but all it says it all drives are clean, and reboots. I will NEVER mess with the boot screen again! I was totally locked out of my pc. Totally. There was no way to get arround that randomizer program at all. The recovery console is totally worthless!!!! WORTHLESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least for this type of problem. And if you had a corrupted file you can just use the winXP system repair. I have no idea what the hell the "recovery console" is for. A recovery console should give you options to "RECOVER". Not dump you to a DOS Prompt, with the very most basic of DOS commands. Hell DOS 1.1 had better command functions. I though the darn recovery console would allow you to use the restore functions (if you have it enabled, which I do). Hell even my rescue disk didn't even work! Uhhhg, well as you can see I have finnaly restored my system to it's previous condition but what a pain.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help!
NOTICE TO ALL!!! DON'T USE ANY BOOT SCREEN PROGRAMS!!
The recovery console is used for critical system files.
Just because you have a problem and do not know how to repair it, does not mean that others will have the same problem.
You should have also known that messing with the boot screen is an "At Your Risk" modification.
Lastly, you should always have a backup of your boot.ini file and some sort of program that will allow you to access the NTFS partition,
if you are using NTFS or have your boot.ini file set for two boot screens.
Example from mine:
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Custom Boot Screen" /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Original Boot Screen" /fastdetect
Just because you failed to heed the warnings and to be prepared for the worst, does not make it the programs fault.

*Modifications beyond the original appearance is an "At Your Risk" decision*