Assuming that, at this point you have edited the boot.ini file, and the resulting file defines a device connection that your PC does not have, the easy thing is to restore the old boot.ini file.
As you have access to another PC, consider putting the drive from the problematic one into the one that worked - as a slave, or possibly master on the second IDE connection cable so you still boot to the working PC's OS, but can access the other drive as if it only contained data Then you can check the changes you made, or at least restore the Boot.ini that worked the file should contain something like ------------------------------------------ [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="0001D Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console" /cmdcons multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="0001 Backup of main boot system as at 2003 Jly 04 (#1)" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="0011 Backup pre new DVD Copied >From Disk 0" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINNT="0013 Backup pre Systemwoks2005 Partition Copied From Disk 0 (#1)" ----------------------------------- Note the entries starting multi I have changed the descriptions of the bootable selections to indicate where the OS is, and that the first one is the 'D'efault JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Houseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:16 PM Subject: Re: Boot.ini > Boot into recovery console and -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
