REQ: NEED help, can't boot in safe mode, please!

[dowopper]

XP Pro, I click start, run, type in msconfig, no BOOT.INI, it was there
last week, gone now? Now I get General, SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, Services and
Startup, BOOT.INI has dissapeared, anybody have any ideas, would sure
appreciate some help, thank you!

 

[dowopper]

XP Pro, I click start, run, type in msconfig, no BOOT.INI, it was
there last week, gone now? Now I get General, SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI,
Services and Startup, BOOT.INI has dissapeared, anybody have any
ideas, would sure appreciate some help, thank you!

I found the problem on the net! I had to create a new boot.ini. file , all
fixed now, thanks anyway!

 

[Kelly]

How strange. What was the main cause for it to disappear, from your
findings?

 

[dowopper]

How strange. What was the main cause for it to disappear, from your
findings?

I haven't any idea Kelly. Last week i was walking my sister through a safe
boot because of a virus she picked up, that's why i knew it was in my
msconfig, yesterday she calls me again for the same reason, another virus
as i walked her through it again, my BOOT.INI was gone! I then noticed on a
boot after cmos scan upper left corner said invalid boot.ini booting from
C:/windows. I copied the following below from the net, pasted and saved it
in notepad as: boot.ini, then copied and then pasted it in C:/windows and
bingo, all is well! Strange thing's happen huh! Yhanks for you interest,
Richard.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect

 

[Kelly]

Strange thing's happen huh! Yhanks for you interest, Richard.

Yes, they do and most welcome. Still odd, in my books.

How strange. What was the main cause for it to disappear, from your
findings?

I haven't any idea Kelly. Last week i was walking my sister through a safe
boot because of a virus she picked up, that's why i knew it was in my
msconfig, yesterday she calls me again for the same reason, another virus
as i walked her through it again, my BOOT.INI was gone! I then noticed on
a
boot after cmos scan upper left corner said invalid boot.ini booting from
C:/windows. I copied the following below from the net, pasted and saved it
in notepad as: boot.ini, then copied and then pasted it in C:/windows and
bingo, all is well! Strange thing's happen huh! Yhanks for you interest,
Richard.
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect