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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6311)	2/15/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: RagTimeBand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Clarence Re [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT0="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT0="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos --------------- I see you have the almost the same lines as ZP has. Only in your case in the second line, the trailing quote is after [VGA mode]. Back in the Win3.11 world items in braces are labels. If that holds to the current OS's shouldn't [VGA mode] be on a separate line and why's it followed by a quote? Emory

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (6311)	2/15/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Can I just copy and paste this into my existing boot.ini? Yes, but let me go back and check it again <g>. Sometimes I have trouble with spaces when I copy things from the browser. Anyhow, now you know what it's supposed to say, right? Just edit carefully. And of course save the boot.ini file you have. I just copied and pasted it into a text file Looks ok. HOWEVER, perhaps the safest thing would be to copy the boot.ini from your D: drive to your C: drive (the one you posted in the message I'm responding to). That is, this one: >>On KOT 98nt0 D: the boot.ini file is... [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT0 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT0="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT0="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos C:\="Microsoft Windows" ---------------------- Then change all 3 WINNT0 occurrences to WINNT. This is not a mystery; all you're doing is pointing at a certain directory on a certain disk. The D: drive boot.ini looks like it's on C: when you boot it, hence the references to rdisk(0) in your file on D: (IDE2). It's physically rdisk(1), but the bios is playing with NT's head during the boot process. BTW, boot.ini is a read-only file so Note Pad won't let you save back into it, but explorer will let you copy over it. OR turn off the read only attribute before you edit it. (Right click boot.ini, select properties, clear the read-only check box). As to Emory's comment, everything in quotes is just a label, including [VGA mode]. It's /basevideo that gives VGA mode. >>The only backups I have for the primary nt install are the DI images. It would be included there...correct? I suppose. Can you pull out just a single file? You made an emergency repair disk, right? You can restore it from that using the three-floppy NT install disks. OR if you can boot NT from the D drive then you can edit boot.ini from there. That's what it's there for. You can't boot from a floppy and edit it because it's in an NTFS partition. BTW, I just used your terminology for IDE1 (primary master) and IDE2 (primary slave). That's the way FDISK would number them, provided they were both present. NT Disk manager would number 'em, 0, 1, like rdisk() in boot.ini.