Boot Problems

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On a backup server, I deleted the partitions to create a
big partition that would be used to store backups. It
told me that I needed to change boot.ini in order to re-
boot. Well, I forgot about that (i needed to change it
from partition 3 to partition 2) and now it will not
boot. Actually yesterday I could not find a boot.ini on
either server.

How can I fix this now?
 
Try making a boot floppy. An example of boot.ini to try is below. For the
floppy to successfully boot Windows 2000 the disk must contain the "NT" boot
sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot
sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and
boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys.

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt "drive0part1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\winnt "drive0part2"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\winnt "drive0part3"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\winnt "drive1part1"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\winnt "drive1part2"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\winnt "drive1part3"

Explorer|Tools|Folder Options|View, then radio button for "Show hidden files
and folders", then uncheck the box for "Hide protected operating system
files" to locate the files in the system partition.
 
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