missing boot.ini

[johnbull]

I use win2k pro.

Couple of days ago, when I booted my comp a message came up saying "Invalid boot.ini ; booting from c:\winnt\" but, the comp booted fine.

I then checked my comp and eliminated dntsu26 trojan. I don't know for sure but, I think it was the reason that something happened to my boot.ini.

When I search for it...nothing appears.

How can I fix this? Nothing seems to be wrong w/ my comp except for that message, which appears on restart.

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Another question: I changed my login password. I have two a/c's, administrator and another one. I login to the other one. I went to control panel and changed the pw for both of them. Now when I restart and get to the pw screen, it says that pw is wrong and when I look it's the old pw and then I type in the new pw and it proceeds.

How can I make it so that it remembers the new pw like before?

Thank you for your time.

 

[LiLithTecH]

The BOOT.INI file is a Hidden System file generally located in the
%SystemRoot% of the drive the OS resides on.

It sounds like the file had its attributes changed from READ ONLY.

You can try modifying it through Windows to set the attribute.
An easy way would be to go to:

Start \ Settings \ Control Panel \ System \ Advanced \ Startup and Recovery \ Settings
and modify one of the time settings. Exit. Then set it back to were it was.

 

[Sianath]

The file may also have been removed by the virus. The hidden attribute is normal, but that wouldn't prevent the machine from locating it during boot.

If you need to recreate it, you can copy a boot.ini from another machine and edit it as necessary, or you can just create your own.

To do that, just open up Notepad, and type the following:

(this assumes you have a default setup of booting from your first physical disk with your first partition)

[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional " /fastdetect

Save this file as boot.ini at the root of your system partition (usually C🙂 and then set the properties for the file to read-only to prevent applications from accessing it that don't bother to change the properties first.