Boot.ini missing or corrupted

[neo]

I just recently put together a new system.
I-will XP333-R motherboard, Duron Athlon 1.2 mghz processor, 768 DDR Ram, 60 gig hard drive partioned for C, D, and E. Also have another 120 Gig hard drive for data.
I formatted the 60 gig drive and gave 10 gigs (C) for the Win2000 Pro. Partition D is where I host the Programs. Drive E is spare.
Install wasn't the smoothest. Now when I boot up, I get a message saying "can't find boot.ini file" may be missing or corrupted ...
I've tried repairing with the Setup CD Rom but it doesn't seem to work.
Does anyone know how I can repair or copy and replace the boot.ini file I supposedly need?

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neo at 11/15/2002 5:37:02 PM

I just recently put together a new system.
I-will XP333-R motherboard, Duron Athlon 1.2 mghz processor, 768 DDR Ram, 60 gig hard drive partioned for C, D, and E. Also have another 120 Gig hard drive for data.
I formatted the 60 gig drive and gave 10 gigs (C) for the Win2000 Pro. Partition D is where I host the Programs. Drive E is spare.
Install wasn't the smoothest. Now when I boot up, I get a message saying "can't find boot.ini file" may be missing or corrupted ...
I've tried repairing with the Setup CD Rom but it doesn't seem to work.
Does anyone know how I can repair or copy and replace the boot.ini file I supposedly need?


>>>Make a boot disk. Format a floppy disk in windows 2000 and put 3 files on it. All three should be in the root directory of any windows 2000 machine. 1)ntldr 2)ntdetect.com 3)boot.ini
Modify the boot.ini file on the floppy, so that instead of saying multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) it will have multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2). You can keep trying different numbers on the partition section, 1, 2, 3, etc. to represent on which partition number the system partition resides. If you can get the boot disk to let you into your machine, modify the boot.ini file on the machine to be the same as the one on the floppy. You should be able to get back in then.