Re: Invalid boot.ini file

There is a file called SETUP.EXE, so I thought it might be relevant since you
said I should use "SETUP floppy disks" or "Windows 2000 SETUP CD". I
apologise for my total ignorance, but I do not have floppy disks and I do not
know if the CD I have is the latter. The CD opens with one of 3 options: 1)
Install Windows 2000 2) Install Add-on components 3) Browse this CD.
Browsing the CD gives me:

Six FOLDERS:
BOOTDISK
DISCOVER
I386
SETUPTXT
SUPPORT
VALUEADD

and 8 FILES:
AUTORUN.INF
CDROM_IP5
CDROM_NT5
CDROM_SP.TST
READ1ST.TXT
README.DOC
SETUP.EXE
SPNOTES.HTM

Your directions begin after I already have on my screen what you call a
"Setup Notification screen", so I need to know what that is (or rather, how
to get it) before I can even start following your directions....Then I will
need to know what to do if it prompts for the password I don't have (I have
never been asked for a password---the computer is set up 'knowing the only
person to use it is me, the administrator). You say:
"Note If the registry is corrupted or missing or no valid installations are
found, the Recovery Console starts in the root of the startup volume without
requiring a password." BUT if none of these are the case, and it still wants
my password, I will not know what to do....

Once you manage to get me to the Recovery Console, I will have no idea what
to do unless it is totally self-explanatory to someone who does not know what
the Recovery Console is.....The folders you mention (%systemroot% or
%windir%) are totally unfamiliar to me.....

Thanks again for your help and thank you for your patience.....

Janet



"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> There is nothing to click on relating to "set-up"
>
> You'll need to boot from your install media in order to start the Recovery
> Console.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> -------------
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> "Janetb" wrote:
> | Thank you very much for your prompt reply!
> | I have several partitions. Yes, C is the system partition. As I wrote
> | earlier, I was configured to view hidden and system files, but boot.ini
> did
> | not and does not appear (that's why I had thought I might be looking in
> the
> | wrong place).
> |
> | The rest of your reply is exactly what you wrote before, thus all my
> queries
> | regarding that paragraph still stand....I wish I could send you a screen
> | capture of the Windows 2000Professional contents---everything I click on
> | relating to "set-up" gets me to an installation or an upgrade---I don't
> know
> | where a Repair option is on the disk.....
> |
> | Janet
>
>
>
.

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