Hi, I get this error everytime i restart before the blue bars go across the screen (the windows xp loadin screen) Invalid BOOT.ini file booting from c:/windows please help :) Death gotta be easy coz life is hard Ill go my own way... www.freewebs.com/evilmaiden HackerzNmaster@gmail.com We need to pass the torch and let our children read our sad and messy history

Some answers here. http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/17299.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Invalid+BOOT.ini+file&btnG=Google+Search

nope didnt work, maybe theres something wrong with my boot.ini file? [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn Death gotta be easy coz life is hard Ill go my own way... www.freewebs.com/evilmaiden HackerzNmaster@gmail.com We need to pass the torch and let our children read our sad and messy history

maybe someone will shed somelight on why it has /NoExecute=Optin at the end. Mine reads [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

Insert your XP CD and boot to it. Press R for recovery console. It will detect your operating system and ask if you want to log into it. Do so using your Admin password. The pwd might be blank (just hit enter key). Once you are logged in to a C:/ prompt enter the following commands one at a time followed by enter key and answer Y to each: FIXBOOT FIXMBR When finished remove the CD and reboot. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.

Just did a comparison between your BOOT.INI file and my own. there might be a problem with the last line of yours if what you posted above was a copy'paste from your actual file. My last line reads as follows: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn Apart from the fact I have Pro and you have Home there is another difference. Note the spaces between Professional" and / and again between fastdetect and / Did you copy/paste your info or did you type it out and just missed the spaces? Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.

On second look yours seem fine. the spaces are there. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.