Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:42:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, Matt. Hopefully the few geek genes I have perhaps passed along > will enable my daughter to attempt this procedure on her own. I was thinking that the process I outlined may or my not alter the existing boot.ini references to the options you're seeing at boot. There are only a few files needed for boot. These as I recall: Boot.ini Ntldr Ntdetect.com And sometimes Ntbootdd.sys There may be others. But if those are missing, the process I outlined should replace them. It worked for me at least. If the 1st time through the process I outlines, you end up with the same problem, you could try backing up those boot files, and running the repair process again. Then you could always replace the files from the Recovery Console, or a W98 boot floppy. You could also ask about this over at the Windows XP Pro-Server-2000-NT Support forum. All Compuserve forums have been open to everyone on the Inet for some time at this point. You just need to create yet another online account. > FYI, the 7010CT is a PII-300, so not so new. I bought it on ebay for > $160, threw in my L100's old 20GB Travelstar, installed W98se/W2k and > voila! Okay... now I'm curious. Did you go the way of installing those OSs without drive overlay? I'll guess you did, and that you're not seeing the problems I've been having with W98's Scandisk finding data problems on partitions that W2K also accesses. Unless you've set things up so they can't see each other's partitions or shared data partitions. Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
