Re: Invalid boot.ini file

"Janetb" wrote:
| Re: your first sentence/paragraph:
| I put the CD in the drive and restarted the computer and got what I always
| get:
| "Invalid boot.ini file. Booting from C:WINNT"
| (white letters on black background in upper left corner of screen). It
just
| appears for a second or two and then boots up fine.
* You're not booting the CD-Rom


| Re: your second Sentence/paragraph:
| What is cmos setup; how do I get to it; how do I set the boot order in it;
| what/where is the boot sequence?
* Check your mobo manual for instructions.


| What/where is POST
* Power On Self Test ( this is the initial screen you see when you turn on
your computer.)


(where I'm supposed to look for the keystroke)?
* Right after POST


What is
| an mobo/pc manual?
* mobo = mother board
pc = personal computer
The books that came with your equipment.


I received no manual with my Windows 2000 ---I received
| only the CD's with the OS already installed by the lab where I bought the
| computer.
|
| Re: your third paragraph:
| As I said in earlier posts, I never chose a password as I was not present
at
| the initial install. Have never been required to use a password---have had
| automatic access to everything. So what do I do when it asks for a
password?
* Try leaving it blank. Seems you have no other choice anyway.


| Whenever you say to restart the computer, should I shut down and restart
| with the button or should I restart by Start>shut down>Restart?
* Use the latter.

In lieu of all of this. If Windows 2000 is installed to C:\ then try
creating a boot floppy. If it works correctly then just copy boot.ini from
the floppy to C:\

For the floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the
"NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on a Windows 2000 machine, not a
DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), and copy
Windows 2000 versions of ntldr, ntdetect.com (from C:\ )

Using notepad.exe create a file named boot.ini and paste in the five lines
below. Save this also to your boot floppy, put the floppy in the drive and
restart the computer. Notice that you don't get "Invalid boot.ini"

----------boot.ini----------------
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000"
----------end file----------------


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Regards,
Dave

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