I accidentally messed up the BOOT.INI, will Repair inst fix it?

[G.M.]

I messed up my BOOT.INI file and it just so happened to
be right before my Motherboard bit the dust, it was a
Dell Dimension 8300, but now it is 100% not Dell, its an
ASRock. PSU is ATX standard so thats not a problem, I set
the BOOT.INI in msconfig/ System Configuration Utility to
boot to safemode to manually remove a Virus from Registry
as the Norton site told me to do but forgot I had
foolishly in safemode gone to Start>Control
Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced>Adapter>Properties>Device
Usage> [ Do not use this device (Disable) ] I pressed OK
hoping to fix a refresh rate error but when I confirmed a
restart to apply the effects, I saw nothing. I booted
Windows regularly and somehow fixed it with SVideo-out,
now I have set the BOOT.INI to ALWAYS boot in safemode
until told otherwise, I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING! -So that is
impossible now. I need to either Repair my XP
installation or i'll be beating myself while I transfer
40Gigs to an IDE from my SATA so I can reformat and
Reinstall, might Repair fix my problem by resetting the
BOOT.INI file?

 

[Guest]

If you can access your harddrive, XP creates backups of ini files when it shuts
down. They are located in: C:\Windows\pss
You should have backup copies of boot.ini, win.ini and system.ini

 

[Plato]

I messed up my BOOT.INI file and it just so happened to

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314081
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289022

 

[Alex Nichol]

I booted
Windows regularly and somehow fixed it with SVideo-out,
now I have set the BOOT.INI to ALWAYS boot in safemode
until told otherwise, I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!

If the device is disabled in Safe Mode it will be in normal mode too.

Try a Boot, hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black to get the menu, take
Safe Mode Command Prompt only.

That may get you to be able to see a C: prompt. In that use system
restore to get back to a point before you disabled the adapter - using
the command
C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
to get it loaded.

If you cannot get to even the C: prompt then the method at
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;307545 should be possible;
that will get you back to an earlier registry from which you can boot to
run system restore, but is a lot more effort if the first idea works