Missing or invalid boot.ini

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Name: ROOKIEPCTECH
Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:32:36 Pacific
Subject: Missing or invalid boot.ini
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...

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Response Number 1

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:36:40 Pacific
Subject: Missing or invalid boot.ini

Reply: (edit)

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
Subject: Missing or invalid boot.ini

Reply: (edit)

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
save the file to a bootable floppy.
Get a boot disk http://bootdisk.com
Boot to dos. at the A:\> type:
copy boot.tmp c:\
attrib -s-h-r boot.ini
rename boot.ini boot.bak
rename boot.tmp boot.ini
attrib +s+h+r

Remove floppy, then reboot machine.

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Response Number 3

Name: BuzzStPoint
Date: November 5, 2004 at 09:54:10 Pacific
Subject: Missing or invalid boot.ini

Reply: (edit)

Sorry the above should state this:
Boot to dos. at the A:\> type:
copy boot.tmp c:\
c:
attrib -s-h-r boot.ini
rename boot.ini boot.bak
rename boot.tmp boot.ini
attrib +s+h+r

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Response Number 4

Name: snipes
Date: November 5, 2004 at 12:08:06 Pacific
Subject: Missing or invalid boot.ini

Reply: (edit)

i agree with BuzzStPoint
hes the man ! ...

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