Solved startup problems

[iknowjohnny]

Yesterday i messed with msconfig by unchecking 2 things, both 3rd party apps that somehow ened up in the boot menu list. I clicked restart later and when i tried to start my PC today it went to a prompt that said to insert windows CD and do a repair. But whether i hit enter or esc, it just restarts and goes to that prompt again even after i put the 7 CD in. Sometimes it offers a menu to select the boot device and when it does i choose CD and it doesn't boot from it but goes to the same prompt. This goes on and on till i finally went into bios and changed the 1st boot drive to the CD. Then i get the option to repair the startup or use the sys restore function. If i repair startup I can get to windows and use my machine as normal, but next time i restart same thing happens and i'm at that prompt again. I think it's just "fixing" it by setting it back to HD for 1st boot. If i choose restore i says no image even tho sys restore IS turned on for my C drive. But if i choose startup fix so that i can get to windows, sys restore won't work because it's next button is greyed out even with my C drive hilighted. And I wanted to try "last known good config" but that never shows anywhere, be it booting from the CD or whatever else i've been offered during this fiasco. Any ideas?

 

[partian]

System Restore - Microsoft Windows is always the option if it's accessible.
Try and see if you can be given the permission to System Restore in Safe Mode.

 

[iknowjohnny]

it wont even give me the boot choice to strat in safe mode. and restore tells me there are no restore points saved. i have permissin as i have used it before, but this time the saves are not there.

 

[iknowjohnny]

Went back to sys restore and an option was no longer greyed out....restore settitngs and previous versions of files. That was not available before, but now it is so i tried it and then when i tried to restore it allowed me to. However, when i did and restarted it went to that same prompt. It will NOT start unless i use the CD. When i did, it went to desktop and a prompt said restore was successful. But restart and agin the dreaded prompt to fix it. Only way in is the CD.

 

[iknowjohnny]

I guess i should have named this thread "windows starts normally, but only when CD is in ROM and ROM is 1st boot device in bios". I tried restore twice now. I even found a issue in bios where under "boot priority" (think thats what it was called but i may be wrong....but something similar) my C drive was second. I'm not talking about where you set boot 1, 2 and 3 etc. There i must have the CD selected as 1st as i said.

Also, like i said i screwed with sys config the day before which i'm sure is what started this. I could swear under the general tab it's always had "selective startup" checked, but now it says normal startup and i dunnow if i did that. But now if i set that to selective it still won't start w/o the CD and when i get into windows it's set back to normal startup. This may have to do with whats going on i suppose. But i have no idea what it caused of how to rectify it. If i leave the windows CD in the drive and leave the ROM as 1st drive in bios the pc works and starts up as normal. But obviously thats not a long term option.

 

[Jacee]

Yesterday i messed with msconfig by unchecking 2 things, both 3rd party apps that somehow ened up in the boot menu list.

What are the 2 apps you unchecked?

 

[iknowjohnny]

I loaded defaults into bios and it worked. Oddly it defaults to my C drive being #3 of my 3 drives in the boot priority menu. But it works like that so what the heck.