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Bootmagic 8, XP on second HD. Possible???
See "Performing a Clean Boot" for more information. GENERAL SETUP ISSUES If you have the Number Nine Imagine 128 Display Adapter, or the STB Velocity 128 3D AGP (Nvidia ..... All system startup info is stored in the Boot.ini file, which is automatically created during Setup at the root of your computer's hard disk.

How do I uninstall windows 95 after doing a clean window 2000 ...
S Vijay [MSFT] svi...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp accessibility Hi, Generally Clean boot mode is used for troubleshooting startup problems You cannot clear the Use Original Boot.ini check box. On the Services tab, select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All.

Problems after Clean Install
Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths" to delete incorrect boot paths. If the above does not correct the issue, then: Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select: Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file. Your boot.ini file should then look

Error 1335 in Office XP with Frontpage
Wesley Vogel 123WVogel...@comcast.net microsoft public windowsxp configuration_manage Try this: Start | Run | Type: msconfig | OK | Boot.ini tab | Check All Boot boot.ini as you saw is clean, i dont understand where it came from this problem? should i try to repair MBR? using fixmbr command? what do you think?

Clean install - setting up NT4 Wrk with ATAPI.SYS from SP4 to ...
Your boot.ini post looks right - IF C:\Windows includes ntoskrnl.exe and the rest of WinXP. That's rdisk(0), which is the first physical drive: the master on the primary IDE controller. And partition(1): the first partition on that hard drive, almost always Drive C:. And in the Root folder named \Windows.

Clean reinstall getting dirtier each attempt?
So I used Windows 2000 CD to do a clean installation. But it failed. When the screen display :"Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM. Press any key to boot from CD" for a occur if the BIOS on your computer is outdated" or "one or more of the following windows boot files are missing or damaged: NTLDR, Ntdetect.com, Boot.ini.

Clean hardware reinstall?
Then type the following: Del Boot.ini and hit enter That will delete the Boot.ini file that is read on bootup and gives you the dual boot menu. And what about a "clean uninstall"?. I tried it by eresing XP on the second partition but now I have a little problem: When I boot the system-boot continues with the

Editing boot.ini
Win2k is apparently working well, and I've installed my other important software in Win2k. I'd like to remove Win98 and convert the disk to NTFS. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Open a CMD prompt an type: attrib -r -h -sc:\boot.ini Open c:\boot.ini in notepad and remove the W98 entry. Delete the Windows folder.

ThinkPad A30 clean install problems
However, I am running 98/NT4 and win2000 as well, so I had to edit the boot.ini file and correct the partition numbers in the Arc paths. So if you get an error after the fdisk, something like "can't find krnl32" then you will have to edit your boot.ini file. Just change the number beside the Partition to whatever

Update failure Clean Install created dual boot system
Just proceed as if doing a clean install of XP and once you specify which drive to install it on, it will find the existing install and ask if you want to repair it. Once thats successful, just manually edit the boot.ini from within XP and add the line for Win98SE as you listed at the top.

Dual-boot with XP Updgrade & recovery CD?
However, you have a boot.ini file on your boot partition that has the erroneous entry for XP. So in explorer, right-click boot.ini and uncheck the read only attribute. If you can't see boot.ini, then you will have to open tools/options select the view tab and select Show hidden files and folders. Open the boot.ini,

Boot ini after XP
Same hard drive different partitions. What I want to do when I get Windows ME this week is backup boot.ini, format drive C: and do a clean install. After installing Windows ME I would restore Boot.ini and hopefully have the dual boot back? Would this work or is there anything else I should backup? Al.

Format secomd drive
aI should then boot into one of my other partitions (located on my second drive) b.Then wipe my first drive clean (delete everything), except for the root files that control NTs booting and the page files etc: (C:\Boot.ini, Bootsect.dos, hiberfil.sys, ntbootdd.sys, detect.com, Ntldr, Pagefile.sys) c.

Programs "Not responding"
DSPatrick.com microsoft public windowsnt setup AFAIK it's got to be there if you have multi-boot options. The boot.ini should reside in the root of the system I've gone a displayed all the hidden files, unhidden the protected os system files (still no boot.ini) and don't know why there's any sign of NT still on

More boot.ini stuff
I want to clean off one drive, but cannot delete or format because windows is running. I think that I can do this if I boot from the CD, but am not too sure where to go Be sure not to delete ntldr , boot.ini and ntdetect.com (they are hidden so you may not see them) also, your pagefile... pagefile.sys will be

Clean Install Upgrade??
This happens sometimes when your HD lineup changes between the time Setup begins and the time you try to boot into WinXP. Perhaps you added or removed a CD drive, or a HD partition or a network drive. C:\boot.ini points to a specific rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows folder that holds ntoskrnl.exe, counting the physical

Windows XP clean install fails: ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt
To clean up your dual boot mess and get back to just having XP booting off C: (if that's what you want), you may want to consider starting over and reinstalling XP clean. -craig Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote: Hi, 1. Yes, just edit boot.ini, a hidden system file on the root of the boot partition.

Reinstalling Win2K (Clean) on Dual Boot System
If anything goes wrong and your pc doesn't boot after the alterations you can always copy the origianl boot ini file back from the floppy disk to the C: drive. If you are using XP Home then change the second line of the boot ini file accordingly. [boot loader] timeout=30

Windows XP clean install fails: ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt
"John Butler" <onclej...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: So I did a clena install which gave me a double boot Win XP Pro or Win Me. Having now installed everything on XP how can I remove ME Remove the ME startup option from the C:\BOOT.INI file. If you need help with this, post the contents of the file here.

Can't do a clean installation after I changed the power supply
Yes I had noticed the boot.ini still in the root directory with all the info intact. How do I clean it up? Geoff Glad I was able to help. You may still need to clean up the old NT/2K boot files, since they're still present but inactive but now it should be pretty easy.