Boot and change boot.ini from a floppy or CD or ?

[Bob]

How can I boot a win2K system with a NTFS boot drive and get to a
point where I can either edit or copy a boot.ini file ? In other
words, I need sort of a "DOS floppy boot" that will let me rename,
delete, copy boot.ini.

I have a non-working win2K install and a new working install in a
separate dir. I need to be able to change boot.ini to boot from one
directory or another but without necessarily being able to actually
boot into the graphical portion of win2K and change things from there.

Thanks,

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

How can I boot a win2K system with a NTFS boot drive and get to a
point where I can either edit or copy a boot.ini file ? In other
words, I need sort of a "DOS floppy boot" that will let me rename,
delete, copy boot.ini.

I have a non-working win2K install and a new working install in a
separate dir. I need to be able to change boot.ini to boot from one
directory or another but without necessarily being able to actually
boot into the graphical portion of win2K and change things from there.

Thanks,

- Format a floppy disk on some other Win2000 PC.
Don't do it on a Win9x PC - it won't work.
- Copy these files from the \i386 folder of your Win2000 CD to A:\
ntldr
ntdetect.com
- Copy the hidden file c:\boot.ini to A:\
- Create several lines in A:\boot.ini to reflect your desired
parameters, e.g. like so:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 1"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 3"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 4"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(5)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 5"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(6)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 6"
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(7)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 7"
/fastdetect
- Boot the machine with this floppy

 

[3c273]

Perhaps this article can help with your problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119467/
Louis

 

[Andy]

Boot from the Windows 2000 CD and run the recovery console.