Re: boot.ini missing after bootcfg /rebuild
- From: Jose <jose_ease@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 05:02:37 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 5, 7:35 am, John John - MVP <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You need to find out when the file gets deleted. Is the file present
just before you do a shutdown?
Get Sysinternals' Process Monitor from the Microsoft site and set it to
monitor the boot.ini file. If you enable Process Monitor's Boot Logging
feature the utility will boot right through the shutdown process. You
may need to do a complete boot/shutdown cycle with Boot Logging enabeld
to get good results. Enable Boot Logging & shutdown the computer. Then
reboot and shutdown again, the second set of results should capture the
shutdown activity. Use the filters to monitor only the boot.ini file,
else the log may be pretty big!
John
pinnum wrote:
My personal theory is that one or more of the system files is missing or
corrupt or mismatched or the boot sector is corrupt and for some reason that
causes Windows to delete the boot.ini. I say this because when you boot from
the CD, it seems to be providing all the files etc. required for the boot.
Is there any software that detects whether all boot files are present and not
corrupt?
I just have to think that someone from Microsoft knows what causes this
behavior.
"golden" wrote:
Very interesting post because I have the exact same issue. Went to
recovery console to do a bootcfg /rebuild for that one time get in
Windows and I checked if the boot.ini was still there with no luck.
I tried to access the boot.ini by msconfig but the tab wasn't there. I
went by Startup and recovery button from System Properties and I got an
error message (sorry i forgot to write it down).
I'm starting to think it's spyware of virus that deleting that file but
Norton 2009 showing nothing and I'm running Malwarebyte right now. The
PC that I'm working on has been rebuild 3 weeks ago from the recovery
partition. It's an HP Pavillion a1350n with the built-in recovery
partition.
Thanks for any idea
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Someone else had the problem of the boot.ini file getting deleted a
few days ago.
If the boot.ini is missing it will not show up as a tab in MSCONFIG
(this makes sense).
An immediate suggestion was that they:
Download, install, update and do a full scan with these three free
malware detection programs:
Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/
AVG (AVG): http://free.avg.com/
After 5 days of futzing around and 24 messages, they finally decided
to apply the suggestion offered on day 1.
Problem solved.
.
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