Re: NTLDR: FATAL ERROR 256 READING BOOT.INI

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Create an NT floppy boot disk as per the instructions here: http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ntboot/ and see if you can boot the computer with it. Make sure that you use an NT type machine to format the floppy drive, the disk will fail if you format it with a Windows 9x machine.

John

Glitchie wrote:
Okay, just so everyone knows, I may have just screwed this up myself...

I did this - downloaded 'xp boot files' to floppies from
allbootdisks.com and they didn't work. So when I ran the console, I ran
fixboot, I thought that's what I needed, but I didn't have the computer
with this page on it to double check. So yeah, may have just made this
worse.

Anyway, I went in and ran this after I found out I had the wrong
command, and did the bootcfg /rebuild and it said there was an error -
why I think the fixboot messed it up even more. It tells me to run
chkdsk, which didn't detect any errors. I ran the bootcfg /rebuild again
and its still telling me that there's an error and to run chkdsk.

I know if I really screwed this up by running fixboot, I'll likely have
to reformat and reinstall fresh. I have a lot of my graphics program
stuff installed on it already before it came up with this error with the
boot.ini file and I REALLY don't want to do that if I can avoid it.

Thanks,

Glitchie


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