Boot.ini

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this moring my win2000pro system upon power on presented me with the following: invalid boot.ini ..... booting from c:\winnt, the system continued to boot without any apparent problems. I have checked the root of C: and there is not boot.ini (I have set the system to show all files and system files). I am supposing that something I did yesterday wiped it out? How do I go about fixing this, creating a new one or what ever.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You should be able to boor from the Win2K installation CD and use
the Recovery Console to repair the situation.

Description of the Windows 2000 Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q229716


Bruce Chambers

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this moring my win2000pro system upon power on presented me with the

following: invalid boot.ini ..... booting from c:\winnt, the system
continued to boot without any apparent problems. I have checked the
root of C: and there is not boot.ini (I have set the system to show
all files and system files). I am supposing that something I did
yesterday wiped it out? How do I go about fixing this, creating a new
one or what ever.

 

[Coop]

Thank you for your reply, yes I can boot from the win2k cd
into recovery mode, this leaves me at the dos prompt and
can use the commands available, but I think I need
something to recreate the boot.ini file, I guess I could
try to use notepad and create a blank one but I have no
Idea of the proper syntax or the lines that need to be
there,

Any Ideas?
Coop

 

[Dan Seur]

Coop - since your machine boots OK with boot.ini apparently missing, I'm
guessing your W2k is a vanilla installation with the system itelf
resident on the master drive of the primary controller, in the first
partition on that drive, in the directory named \WINNT. The other
boot-time files needed (ntdetect.com and ntldr) are presumably present
in the root directory of C: where they and boot.ini would normally be.

If the above is correct, just cut/paste the boot.ini below into notepad
and copy it into the root of C:.

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

NOTES: This should be a 5-line text file. Watch the word wrap on that
last line. Also, if your W2k directory is not \WINNT, just edit the
directory name in both places. Also, if you're booting from SCSI (or I
believe a RAID array) ignore this post. To understand the (#) entries,
search the web for "boot.ini" or "ARC syntax". I'd search again for that
hidden/readonly/system boot.ini file in your C:\, too.

 

[Coop - Dan Cooper]

Dan;
Thank you very much, thats what I needed, it worked
perfectly, boot.ini must be similar in function as the
autoexec.bat and config.sys in win98 (dont really need
them if things are pretty vanilla), yes this system is
pretty basic vanilla install, system on first hd, first
partition. copied, pasted, set attrib to hidden readonly,
rebooted, no messages, still dont know what happened to
cause the original to go away??

Thanx again;
Danny L Cooper
Dir Computer Development
Ute Indian Tribe
(e-mail address removed)

-----Original Message-----
Coop - since your machine boots OK with boot.ini apparently missing, I'm
guessing your W2k is a vanilla installation with the system itelf
resident on the master drive of the primary controller, in the first
partition on that drive, in the directory named \WINNT. The other
boot-time files needed (ntdetect.com and ntldr) are presumably present
in the root directory of C: where they and boot.ini would normally be.

If the above is correct, just cut/paste the boot.ini below into notepad
and copy it into the root of C:.

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

NOTES: This should be a 5-line text file. Watch the word wrap on that
last line. Also, if your W2k directory is not \WINNT, just edit the
directory name in both places. Also, if you're booting from SCSI (or I
believe a RAID array) ignore this post. To understand the (#) entries,
search the web for "boot.ini" or "ARC syntax". I'd search again for that
hidden/readonly/system boot.ini file in your C:\, too. :- )

Thank you for your reply, yes I can boot from the win2k cd
into recovery mode, this leaves me at the dos prompt and
can use the commands available, but I think I need
something to recreate the boot.ini file, I guess I could
try to use notepad and create a blank one but I have no
Idea of the proper syntax or the lines that need to be
there,

Any Ideas?
Coop


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[Dan Seur]

Coop - you're welcome and thanx for the update. Files shouldn't just
vanish but sometimes do; it's an imperfect world. But I'd keep an eye on
that drive...maybe even run the manufacturer's downloadable disk
analysis utility against it, just to be sure. Keep an eye on event
viewer, too, and watch for little hiccups in behavior like occasional
odd slowdowns, short freezes, etc. Chkdsk once in a while, defrag too,
and make sure the pagefile is rightsized and well placed (I think
Start/Help speaks to the latter; certainly the support.microsoft.com
knowledge base does.

Oh...and Coop, don't sprinkle your real name/net addr around newsgroups;
such are robo-harvested by the booming spam industry.

Dan;
Thank you very much, thats what I needed, it worked
perfectly, boot.ini must be similar in function as the
autoexec.bat and config.sys in win98 (dont really need
them if things are pretty vanilla), yes this system is
pretty basic vanilla install, system on first hd, first
partition. copied, pasted, set attrib to hidden readonly,
rebooted, no messages, still dont know what happened to
cause the original to go away??

Thanx again;
Danny L Cooper
Dir Computer Development
Ute Indian Tribe
(e-mail address removed)

-----Original Message-----
Coop - since your machine boots OK with boot.ini

apparently missing, I'm

guessing your W2k is a vanilla installation with the

system itelf

resident on the master drive of the primary controller,

in the first

partition on that drive, in the directory named \WINNT.

The other

boot-time files needed (ntdetect.com and ntldr) are

presumably present

in the root directory of C: where they and boot.ini would

normally be.

If the above is correct, just cut/paste the boot.ini

below into notepad

and copy it into the root of C:.

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft

Windows 2000

Professional" /fastdetect

NOTES: This should be a 5-line text file. Watch the word

wrap on that

last line. Also, if your W2k directory is not \WINNT,

just edit the

directory name in both places. Also, if you're booting

from SCSI (or I

believe a RAID array) ignore this post. To understand the

(#) entries,

search the web for "boot.ini" or "ARC syntax". I'd search

again for that

hidden/readonly/system boot.ini file in your C:\, too. :-
)

Coop wrote:


cd

and

could

ever

(e-mail address removed)...


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