Boot.ini

[Guest]

Hello,
I upgraded a HDD that had Win ME to Win 2000 Prof the other day. The update worked fine and the OS loaded and ran perfectly. I relocated the HDD to a newer PC. When I tried to boot to the OS it wouldn't work. Received the NTOSKRNL.exe is missing or corrupted error message. I realized this was a boot.ini problem and created a boot disk with an edited boot.ini. The OS now boots up just fine from the boot disk. The problem is I can only boot from the disk and not from the hard drive. When I do a search for the boot.ini on the PC no results are returned. There is a file called boot.dos ut no boot.ini.

How can I get the PC to boot to the OS without the use of the boot disk?

Thanks,
Bill V

 

[Alfred Falk]

Hello,
I upgraded a HDD that had Win ME to Win 2000 Prof the other day. The
update worked fine and the OS loaded and ran perfectly. I relocated
the HDD to a newer PC. When I tried to boot to the OS it wouldn't
work. Received the NTOSKRNL.exe is missing or corrupted error message.
I realized this was a boot.ini problem and created a boot disk with an
edited boot.ini. The OS now boots up just fine from the boot disk. The
problem is I can only boot from the disk and not from the hard drive.
When I do a search for the boot.ini on the PC no results are returned.
There is a file called boot.dos ut no boot.ini.

The file is marked "hidden". In Window Explorer, click on Tools menu |
Folder Options menu item. Click on View tab, choose "Show hidden files
and folders". Now you should be able to see C:\boot.ini. Right-click
on it and get its properties. Clear the Read-only check box.

How can I get the PC to boot to the OS without the use of the boot
disk?

Copy boot.ini from floppy to C:\.

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A L B E R T A Alfred Falk (e-mail address removed)
R E S E A R C H Information Systems Dept (780)450-5185
C O U N C I L 250 Karl Clark Road
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://www.arc.ab.ca/ T6N 1E4
http://www.arc.ab.ca/staff/falk/

 

[Guest]

Is it that simple? Thought it may be so but don't want to run into boot problems. I really need this PC functioning properly.

Thanks
Bill V

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,
I upgraded a HDD that had Win ME to Win 2000 Prof the other day. The

update worked fine and the OS loaded and ran perfectly. I relocated the HDD
to a newer PC. When I tried to boot to the OS it wouldn't work. Received the
NTOSKRNL.exe is missing or corrupted error message. I realized this was a
boot.ini problem and created a boot disk with an edited boot.ini. The OS now
boots up just fine from the boot disk. The problem is I can only boot from
the disk and not from the hard drive. When I do a search for the boot.ini on
the PC no results are returned. There is a file called boot.dos ut no
boot.ini.

How can I get the PC to boot to the OS without the use of the boot disk?

Thanks,
Bill V

Make sure that these three files exist on c:\ -
- c:\boot.ini
- c:\ntldr
- c:\ntdetect.com
They are normally hidden.

Note that there is no upgrade path from WinME to Win2000, because WinME was
released AFTER Win2000. If you do it anyway, you can expect some interesting
problems.

 

[dcdon]

It is that simple.
You an do it through the interface, if you unhide the files.
Start
Settings
Control Panel
Folder Options
Check the "Show hidden..."
Uncheck the next two

The do the search, viola

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Happy Holidays,
don
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Hello,
I upgraded a HDD that had Win ME to Win 2000 Prof the other day. The
update worked fine and the OS loaded and ran perfectly. I relocated
the HDD to a newer PC. When I tried to boot to the OS it wouldn't
work. Received the NTOSKRNL.exe is missing or corrupted error message.
I realized this was a boot.ini problem and created a boot disk with an
edited boot.ini. The OS now boots up just fine from the boot disk. The
problem is I can only boot from the disk and not from the hard drive.
When I do a search for the boot.ini on the PC no results are returned.
There is a file called boot.dos ut no boot.ini.

The file is marked "hidden". In Window Explorer, click on Tools menu |
Folder Options menu item. Click on View tab, choose "Show hidden files
and folders". Now you should be able to see C:\boot.ini. Right-click
on it and get its properties. Clear the Read-only check box.

How can I get the PC to boot to the OS without the use of the boot
disk?

Copy boot.ini from floppy to C:\.

--
----------------------------------------------------------------
A L B E R T A Alfred Falk (e-mail address removed)
R E S E A R C H Information Systems Dept (780)450-5185
C O U N C I L 250 Karl Clark Road
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://www.arc.ab.ca/ T6N 1E4
http://www.arc.ab.ca/staff/falk/

 

[Guest]

When I try to copy from the a:/ a prompt asks if I want to replace the file (either boot.ini, ntdetect, or ntldr). What's strange is none of these files are displayed on c:\ even when I select to display hidden files. I can however go to a command prompt and edit boot.ini on c:\. Should I just overwrite the files from the bootable floppy and be done with it

thanks
Bill V

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Bill

To access boot.ini, open a command prompt and change directory to C:\, then
type "attrib -r -h -s boot.ini". The file should now be visible.

Best regards

Bjorn