Re: Invalid boot.ini file

You'll want to *boot* from the install media. This means put the Windows
2000 install CD-Rom in the drive and restart the computer.

You may need to set the boot order in cmos setup to CD-Rom first in boot
sequence. Also look for the keystroke (if necessary) at POST to force boot
from CD-Rom drive or check your mobo/pc manual for instructions.

Press ENTER at the "Setup Notification" screen. Press R to repair a Windows
2000 installation, and then press C to use the Recovery Console. The
Recovery Console then prompts you for the administrator password. This is
the password for the local administrator account that you chose at the time
of the original install. (might be blank)

This will place you at the recovery console command line. At that point
issue the command;

fixboot

Then restart the computer.


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Regards,
Dave

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Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Janetb" wrote:
| 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


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