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Old 08-22-2003, 08:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Gaming Need help rebuilding boot.ini

I am using recovery console to rebuild the boot.ini after cloning a hard drive that was part of a multi-boot cfg.

I have one OS now and I am at the "Enter OS load options:" portion. So what are my options and what do I enter.

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Old 08-22-2003, 08:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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If the recovery console cannot find any versions of WINDOWS to logon to, you will have to boot from a DOS floppy to make the changes (if the drive isn't NTFS that is )

Generally, boot.ini has a generic reference to the first partition on the hard drive like:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS (or WINNT)="Windows 2000/XP Pro"

Sometimes you can get away with just entering the drive letter also.
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Well I am getting to the startup screen now. But I think I need to physicaly re-install all of my cards to get it to boot. I am just trying to get a lost password out of Outlook.
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