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Wininit.ini rename through DOS?
Name: Meltdown211 Date: February 10, 2002 at 19:11:12 Pacific
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Need some help gang! I need to rename my Wininit.ini to Wininit.old to boot up! I get this message: Windows could not upgrade the file %1 to %2. Microsoft's "fix" is to rename it through Windows, problem is, I cant get into Windows before the error message is displayed and it locks up! I have a boot disk and will rename it thru DOS but I need some instruction on how to do this! Any help is appreciated!
Name: www Date: February 10, 2002 at 21:09:05 Pacific
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boot with a startup disk and at a: type c: press enter then type cd\windows press enter then at c:\windows ren wininit.ini wininit.old press enter-take out floppy reboot.
Response Number 2
Name: Meltdown211 Date: February 11, 2002 at 04:03:41 Pacific
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Is that exactly how it needs to be written when I get to C:\windows ren wininit.ini wininit.old. <------?Just like this
Thanks for the help!!
Response Number 3
Name: newgrl Date: February 11, 2002 at 10:48:28 Pacific
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Boot with an ME bootdisk. Choose minimal boot.
At the a:\> prompt type each of these commands pressing enter after each one:
c: cd windows ren wininit.ini wininit.old
Pull out the bootdisk and press ctrl+alt+del to reboot.
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