William B. Lurie said in :
Sharon F wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:54:57 -0400, William B. Lurie wrote:


Oh, you are at least 105% correct, Sharon. On all counts. And I
did see your note and saved the message but didn't follow up right
away (or yet) because I wasn't sure I could find all the items.
I'm in a ticklish position: I willingly perform any operations
on the clones while keeping the Master off the system, out of
harm's way, but I'm reluctant to do anything to the Master which
might cause me to have *no* working system. My question, obviously,
is, if I do what you show in quotes above, am I taking any chance
at all that I'm endangering my Master system?


No chances that I know of. I had the Recovery Console installed too
with a 3 second time out. Eventually I removed it too. Those were
the steps I used (including the deletion of the cmldr file) and my
setup didn't keel over.

The same directions can be found in this document:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=307654

Okay, I put the clone back in Slave spot so that I could search and
make the deletions you recommended. I found boot.ini and removed
the line referring to CMDCONS. That's the first good news. The first
bad news is that Search couldn't find CMDCONS itself, nor could
it find CMLDR.

The second good news is that I ran that drive again in Master or
Single position (alone, as Master) and this time it (of course)
didn't do the RC choice,ecause it is gone from boot.ini ....

But the second bad news is that it proceeds then to the black
Windows XP logo screen, and then to the light blue screen where
it should load my personal settings......and still hangs there.
So I'll hope you can tell me how to get past that road block.
Bill Lurie

The cmdcons directory has the system and hidden attributes set. When
searching, you must use the advanced options to enable searching of
hidden and system files. However, there really isn't much searching to
do. The directory is:

C:\cmdcons

That is, it is right under the root node. Review the following KB
article:

How to remove Windows Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555032

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