HELP me 2 make Startup Disk

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I have modified my boys pc and now it will not boot up and asks for a boot
disk. The os is WindowsXP Home with SP1a . I have tried to make a startup
disk without success as I have a problem in creating the boot.ini file.
I have the NTdetect.com and NTDLR files on a floppy so what do I do next?
Please help, the boys are upset they cant use their PC.
Thanks in anticipation of someone helping
Jeff
 
I can't answer your question directly but these sites may be of some
help:-

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

How to Troubleshoot Registry Corruption Issues
http://support.microsoft.com/? id=822705

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents Windows XP from
Starting
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545

How to back up, edit, and restore the registry in Windows XP and
Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756
 
Jeff said:
I have modified my boys pc and now it will not boot up and asks for a
boot disk. The os is WindowsXP Home with SP1a . I have tried to make
a startup disk without success as I have a problem in creating the
boot.ini file. I have the NTdetect.com and NTDLR files on a floppy so
what do I do next? Please help, the boys are upset they cant use
their PC.
Thanks in anticipation of someone helping
Jeff
Click to expand...

The Windows XP CD is bootable - if your machine is new enough to boot from
CD you don't need start-up disks.

Boot from the CD (you may ahve to change the boot sequence in your BIOS
settings first) and perform a repair install.

BTW, what did you do in "modifying" the pc?
 
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