Re: mucked with system files - trying to recover - HELP (please)!!

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looked in c and few other sub-directories, but can't find a boot.ini file.
where should i be looking? thx - susan

"DatabaseBen" wrote:

yeh,

you can make "emergency
boot disks" off of another
functional pc with the
same o.s.

afterwards you can
access the o.s. and fix the boot.ini and or
maybe a initiate a restore point or
do a fixboot.

since you like the hands on
method, what you can also do since
you can get into dos is to:

copy the boot.ini onto
a floppy or usb or something.
then go to a functional pc and open
"your" boot.ini with notepad and then
open the boot.ini on the functional
pc with another notepad window.

Compare them and reverse your changes.



"Susan A" <Susan A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A21F3F78-2CAE-472F-9C44-F0D85A4EC748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i STUPIDLY mucked around with one of the system files - i think it was the
boot.ini - the file you get to from control panel>system>advanced>then
selecting the system start up options. i made what i thought was a small
edit, but now my system will not start at all. i've got 2 (or 3)
issues/questions now:
- i am able to get into DOS-mode on the machine. is there ANY way to find
the file and fix it in DOS? i tried a few searches on another machine,
but
cannot find which file this is (but i am clearly not too experienced at
this).
- if not - i have tried to boot from the XP disk to go into repair mode,
but
i can;t boot off the disk. in the BIOS setup, the cd-rom is the first
boot
option, but for some reason, this does not seem to do anything. what am i
doing wrong?

THX!!!



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