Re: Boot to dos prompt?

From: Steve Wilson (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:57:18 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>
>>"Steve Wilson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>wrote in message
>>news:321601c49ba7$50529690$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Hi- I am getting an error pertaining to ntoskrnl.exe
>being
>>> missing. I need to alter the boot.ini file but I can't
>>> get past the error.
>>> Is it possible to boot the machine up and go directly
to
>>> dos?
>>> Thanks.
>>
>>When you write "DOS Prompt", you probably mean the
>>Command Prompt. This is a child process under Windows -
>>it cannot run without Windows.
>>
>>If your system partition is FAT32 then you can boot your
>>machine with a DOS boot disk from www.bootdisk.com
>>and edit boot.ini.
>>
>>If your system partition is NTFS then you have to
install
>your
>>disk temporarily as a slave disk in some other Win2000/XP
>>machine to edit boot.ini.
>>
>>You could also reboot the machine with your Win2000 CD,
>>get into the Command Console, then replace boot.ini with
a
>>version that you supply on floppy disk.
>>
>>
>>.
>>Thanks for the advice- I'll give it a try.
>.
>I was able to get the pc to bbot up with the dos boot
disk and I can move around in dos. However, I cannot seem
to find the boot.ini file, nor can I run the 'edit'
command. Also, I have copied the ntoskrnl.exe file into
\windows\system32 but I still get the same error.
I'm stumped as I can't seem to get pst the error when
loading Windows which would seem to indicate I can't even
run the recovery console form the installation cd.

Any help/suggestions would be rgeatly appreciated.
Thanks.

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