Boot.ini help plz

[fightingfi]

I cant get into a laptop to do a virus scan it just keeps rebooting on me. I need a find and fix plz guys and gals, Tanks in advanced

 

[Nickbaldwin86]

Need more details.
What software?
What laptop?
etc

Do you have a way to put the drive in another computer?

You can go into the c:\ on that drive and fix the boot.ini file if it is the cause of failure.

If you are able to get to that files from another PC:

Try repairing your boot.ini, open with notepad:

Should look like: (Windows XP Pro) (course it will be different for each OS)


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

 

[gimp]

same thing if you try safe mode?

 

[bigdogchris]

I cant get into a laptop to do a virus scan it just keeps rebooting on me. I need a find and fix plz guys and gals, Tanks in advanced

The last 6 months I've encountered a large amount of Windows XP machines doing boot cycle loops. The fix has been to load up from the XP CD and enter recovery console, then run a

chkdsk c: /p /r

 

[Nickbaldwin86]

same thing if you try safe mode?

well of course if you can get into safe mode it would be easy... if the ini file is gone, you will not be able to get into safe mode.

 

[gimp]

well of course if you can get into safe mode it would be easy... if the ini file is gone, you will not be able to get into safe mode.

considering he doesn't say where it's rebooting.
For all we know, it's rebootin during the XP splash screen, or desktop, or the like.

and I, personally, have never seen a computer constantly auto-reboot due to a missing boot.ini

 

[Nickbaldwin86]

considering he doesn't say where it's rebooting.
For all we know, it's rebootin during the XP splash screen, or desktop, or the like.

and I, personally, have never seen a computer constantly auto-reboot due to a missing boot.ini

Well all I was getting at is hope that he had already tried safe mode and I figure if it is rebooting it is doing so @ the slash screen.

if it is getting past the splash screen then it isn't a boot.ini problem

Yes more details would help, really hard to help with such little information.