At startup PC boots to start menu. Why?

Good day

Windows normally displays the options menu after an abnormal shutdown (crash), or if a problem with the hard drive, file system etc., has been detected.

Boot to the Command prompt and run scandisk. This should identify any errors withyour hard drive. I had a similar problem where Windows would not start without displaying the message that my hard drive may contain damaged sectors and that I should run Scandisk. I had checked the drive with Norton Utilities and everything was OK.The message did not go away until I ran scandisk.

Good luck

If #1 doesn't work for you, the problem is probably in your msdos.sys file. The following article describes how to edit this file.

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q118579

You need to look for a line that starts with

BootGUI=

and make sure it says

BootGUI=1

Hope this helps.

Try this and see if it is the problem.
Click on START, RUN, and type msconfig and press enter. Click on the ADVANCED button. On the Advanced Troubleshooting Settings page, look to see if "Enable Startup Menu" is checked. If it is, remove the check mark and click on OK and then OK again. It will tell you that your computer needs to restart. Say yes. That should take care of it.

Hope this helps.