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Missing or invalid boot.ini
Name: ROOKIEPCTECH Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:32:36 Pacific OS: WIN XP PRO CPU/Ram: 700/256
Comment:
I am trying to repair an old pc to give away. having trouble getting it to boot. error message, first said, missing ntldr, replaced that with floppy... now saying, missing or invalid boot.ini... i have no oem windows xp disc at this point. i'm told i could just rebuild it from the repiar console. i don't have it. i have tried a boot disk from the net, 6 discs, nothing is working. any assistance is appreciated...
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:36:40 Pacific
Reply:
If you don't have either a Restore CD or a Windows Installation CD, you're pretty much out of luck. You'll need to buy a licensed copy of the OS.
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Response Number 2
Name: BuzzStPoint Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:53:16 Pacific
Reply:
Make a file called it boot.tmp Open it with notepad and use this. [boot loader] timeout=1 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
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