boot.ini

Hi, Firstly, I'm new to the forums so wanted to say hey to everyone. My main issue is in a multi-boot scenario (2 harddrives, both with an xp and win 8.1 partition), boot.ini comes before BCD so I can never boot the windows 8.1 drives. Quick back story: Originally had 2 harddrives, both xp...

I was messing with batch files and accidentally clicked one that I shouldn't have made. Here are it's contents: attrib -r -s -h c:\autoexec.bat del c:\autoexec.bat attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini del c:\boot.ini attrib -r -s -h c:\ntldr del c:\ntldr attrib -r -s -h c:\windows\win.ini del...

Every time I boot my computer, it come up loading files, the open the boot recovery mode. If I leave it, it says that it fix one error, then it restarts and does the same again. The error was that it the boot.ini was missing. So I booted it up with ubuntu, and created an empty boot.ini file...

i apologize in advance for this is a bit involved. on 8/21/2012 i installed a new program for cleaning the comp. it had good reviews from people i trust. i set it up, ran it, and after cleaning the free space on c it froze. the only thing i had was the mouse. i pressed restart and just...

Hi Guys. I haven't had a Windows XP question in a lot of years. My friend Paul asked my to come over and upgrade his Dell computer to 2 Gigs of ram. I did that and it booted and worked fine, but I noticed that only half of his hard drive was available. I said where is the rest of your hard...

Hi, At start i had windows xp then i bought another hard drive and I installed windows 7 on it (disconnected the one with XP ) After instalation I have connected old drive (with XP installed) so after few runs i realized that i would use my old XP, when i disconnected drive with windows 7 my...

So I have a computer that now has XP/32 and Win7 64, installed all on the same disk, with two partitions that, while in XP, are id'd as C (XP) and H (Win7). Whenever I boot up and choose XP from the Boot Manager I get into XP, no problem. But if I choose Win7 from the Boot Manager, then I get...

Hy. I have installed windows 7 in C:\ drive and after than i installed windows Xp in D:\ drive. But now when i start my computer it automatically start windows Xp. in the C:\ i searched for the boot.ini it was windows xp written there also. please reply as soon as possible.

I set up XP in my boot.ini file and when i go and reboot into XP it says NTDETECT failed

As i said in the title i apologize for yet another dual boot Xp W7 post, iv searched and solved my problem partially but now another issue has arisen and im unsure on how to continue. Il start from the beginning. My PC just had XP 64 Prof on a sata HD but i bought a new sata HD to install W7 64...

Hi all, copied a hard drive using parted magic. I believe i need to edit a boot.ini file? Or was that something for XP? been a while since i upgraded a hard drive so i dont remember exactly what i did last time. Only thing i seem to remember clearly was to NOT plug both drives in once i...

My 8800 gt GPU died on me..so I ordered a 460 SC from EVGA. I install it, and first boot tells me "NTLDR is missing". Never has done this until I installed the new GPU. So on the laptop I research this and try all the fixes suggested including bootrec.exe /fixmbr...no good. /fixboot...no...

I have read most of the posts about Windows 7 and how it no longer has Boot.ini. I am having a problem with my pc and I have tried everything. So... now I am posting for help. Info: This is originally a Dell Desktop that came with Windows xp home edition. A few years back, we installed and...

I have Windows 2003 installed in C and Win XP in D......Then I formatted C and installed Windows 7, but after that I am not able to boot Win XP...... I have tried BCDEDIT & EasyBCD but didnt work for me..... And later I realized there are no files in D to boot Win XP( ie, boot.ini, ntldr...

I have a raid 1 system drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 had XP64 on it, partition 2 is a logical partition and is just storage, and partition 3 has XP32 bit on it. I got my copy of Windows7 and went to install over the XP64 install and it worked great. Now I can't boot into XP32. These...

I was running a dual boot setup with two XP installations, and I upgraded one to Win 7. Stupidly I forgot to back up the boot info for the XP install and 7 wiped it. I'm trying to fix this and having a hard time with it. So far I have downloaded the 3 files (boot.ini, NTDETECT, and ntldr) and...

Successfully installed Win7 (evaluation copy) to the second partition of my harddrive, hoping to be able to dual boot XP pro and Win7. Installed from the disk, not within XP, clean install. Other than my wireless card and sound not detected :(, I do not have an option to dual boot and cannot...

Hello everyone. I know there's a lot of threads about this, I had a look on them but I can't find a solution for my problem. So here it is: My pc had Vista installed on drive C. Then, I installed XP on drive D and used vistaboot pro to manage the boot problem. Everything worked fine. Now, I...

Hello good buddies, I am running Windows 7 (RC1 for the time being - I understand it expires sometime in March of 2010) and love it. Easily the best Windows version yet. However, for several reasons I would like to be able to boot into XP on occasion. I have created a D: partition the in the C...

Windows 7 boot.ini [Solved] Hello users of this forum, Im in big trouble, cause i need to access my computer but it´s not booting, when time to boot it tells me that the boot.ini is damaged. The main problem is that i only have here a DVD with windows RT, and now im running Windows 7...