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Scribe   09-27-2004 at 02:27:20 AM

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Hi:

A friend of mine asked me to look at her daughter's computer. (She uses it
in college) According to what I was told, it was running slow; had all
sorts of problems; and, finally, upon initial booting, this message
appeared: Invalid boot ini file. Booting from c:\winnt\. Ndetect failed.
I just set it up here and got the same message.

I was able to use an emergency WinME startup disk and go to DOS and check
the C drive. Files ARE present under C:\winnt. Though they appear to be
all there, obviously, something is wrong.

There is no WinNT disk in her possession. I could not "see" any hidden
partitions containing WinNT original operating system to either re-install
or repair.

It's a competent computer, has an AMD Duron, 60 gig HD, 500 MB RAM.

Does WinNT create backup boot records and store them within itself that I
might copy a past-good-boot record and overwrite the corrupted record so
this machine will boot? Or, am I way off base in my limited WinNT thinking?

Any ideas/help will be deeply appreciated

Thank you.

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Anonymous   09-27-2004 at 02:27:21 AM
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Answered in .setup

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"Scribe" <dntsaycant@cox.net> wrote in message
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| Hi:
|
| A friend of mine asked me to look at her daughter's computer. (She uses
it
| in college) According to what I was told, it was running slow; had all
| sorts of problems; and, finally, upon initial booting, this message
| appeared: Invalid boot ini file. Booting from c:\winnt\. Ndetect
failed.
| I just set it up here and got the same message.
|
| I was able to use an emergency WinME startup disk and go to DOS and check
| the C drive. Files ARE present under C:\winnt. Though they appear to be
| all there, obviously, something is wrong.
|
| There is no WinNT disk in her possession. I could not "see" any hidden
| partitions containing WinNT original operating system to either re-install
| or repair.
|
| It's a competent computer, has an AMD Duron, 60 gig HD, 500 MB RAM.
|
| Does WinNT create backup boot records and store them within itself that I
| might copy a past-good-boot record and overwrite the corrupted record so
| this machine will boot? Or, am I way off base in my limited WinNT
thinking?
|
| Any ideas/help will be deeply appreciated
|
| Thank you.
|
|
|

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