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mrjamesaa
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 Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:22 am Post subject: ini failure |
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[Moderator note: duplicate post, please use new thread titled boot ini failure]
i dont know exactly what happened but my pc wont even boot up...the ibm logo shows then it quickly shows an error message that says ini file missing or corrupted...i got this pc as a gift so i dont have any of the disks ... i did have an old recovery disk and i tried using it, all it did was allow me to get into dos....is there anything that i can do...my os is XP
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Fry
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:03 am Post subject: |
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How is this related to an INI file or Autohotkey
i suggest you repost in General Chat
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Tuncay
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| There is an ini file Windows looks at startup. Windows XP does not require it, I believed to know. Which ini file is it, that is broken? |
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Dragonscloud
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I'm unsure from your description if this is the same problem or not, but hopefully this will help.
After a power bump a few days ago at my workplace, one of the secretaries got the following error message while trying to boot up:
| Quote: | Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
C:\windows\system32\system |
I thought I was going to have to go through a bit of an ordeal, but the following solved the problem:
I booted from an XP cd that that the former manager had left behind, went into the recovery console and ran chkdsk /r.
The above, and related fixes can be done with any XP disk. For a recovery installation, I think that you would need either the original installation disk or at least one which matches your version of XP. The following KB article may be useful:
How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| From the recovery console you can also run (i do not remember exactly the names) FixMbr and BootFix.BootFix has an option to rebuild the Boot.ini. |
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