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I'm running a high end machine with XP - SP2, and noted the following.
When I boot up, there is momentary text screen that flashes by, noting
"Invalid boot.ini file, booting from C:\WINNT". But, the machine then boots
normally.
I checked the WINNT folder, and the root of C;\ and there is no boot.ini
file in there. Somehow, it must have gotten "lost, strayed, or stolen". So I
did a search of the full C:\drive, and found two copies in other paths. One
was in the Partition Msgic folder created when I got the machine, and the
other was in the WinPatrol folder, created a few months ago. It does of
course have the RHSA attributes, as it should.
The file in the WinPatrol file is
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows XP Media Center Edition"
/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
In the Partition Magic folder from several years ago, the same file exists,
without last statement "/Execute=OptIn"
Rather than go through a lengthy process of using the recovery console, it
would seem that I could just copy the boot.ini file shown above, probably
without the "/Execute=OptIn", and put in to its proper place. I assume that
place is the root of C:\, is it not. Will this approach solve the problem?
Ron Hirsch
I'm running a high end machine with XP - SP2, and noted the following.
When I boot up, there is momentary text screen that flashes by, noting
"Invalid boot.ini file, booting from C:\WINNT". But, the machine then boots
normally.
I checked the WINNT folder, and the root of C;\ and there is no boot.ini
file in there. Somehow, it must have gotten "lost, strayed, or stolen". So I
did a search of the full C:\drive, and found two copies in other paths. One
was in the Partition Msgic folder created when I got the machine, and the
other was in the WinPatrol folder, created a few months ago. It does of
course have the RHSA attributes, as it should.
The file in the WinPatrol file is
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows XP Media Center Edition"
/fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
In the Partition Magic folder from several years ago, the same file exists,
without last statement "/Execute=OptIn"
Rather than go through a lengthy process of using the recovery console, it
would seem that I could just copy the boot.ini file shown above, probably
without the "/Execute=OptIn", and put in to its proper place. I assume that
place is the root of C:\, is it not. Will this approach solve the problem?
Ron Hirsch