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To: belker who wrote (24175)	12/31/2001 9:37:20 PM
From: Troutbum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

joe b and matt, belker Been following your attempts to get belker back on track. W2K has an app called Recovery Console, which is equivalent to FDISK in DOS/Windows 9x. I am not familiar with what commands are available, but I believe you can load the app and type "help" to get details. Maybe a corrupt boot record? Troutbum

To: belker who wrote (24175)	12/31/2001 10:54:53 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 110655

Good suggestion. belkin should be able to use the recovery console to straighten out the boot.ini. I thought about that last night but at that time he wasn't able to boot into W2K and today I just spaced on it.

To: belker who wrote (24175)	1/1/2002 12:43:07 AM
From: Matt Brown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

Based on this response, I am slightly confused at where you stand at this point. What is installed where. And what are you capable of accessing? Can you boot up any OS? Seems to me that you can now, which is certainly a step forward. Looking at that boot.ini file, it looks like you should be able to boot up Windows (95,98) fine. Is this correct? Further, update me again (you lost me a few messages ago) on where you think the various OSs are installed. C:\ = ? D:\ = ? E:\ = ? Pending you know exactly where each OS is installed, the solution looks very simple now. MB [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows"