From: "Robert Comer" 

>I believe it can also rebuild boot.ini if you have a
> nonstandard install location.

That's where it fails pretty miserably if the boot.ini isn't there or if
it's in a different place than it thinks it should be. (it tries to do just
that, but ...)

- Bob Comer


"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:40d28dd2.2741872{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> > delete boot.ini then try to recover the system.
>
> I think I've done that (well, a rename actually). I was testing whether
> W2003 acts the same as NT4 and W2000 if boot.ini is missing. I found that
> all three systems (plus, I think, XP Pro) will attempt a boot from the
> default location if boot.ini is unreadable. That is, c:\winnt for W2000
> and c:\windows for later.
>
> I expect that the Recovery Console would allow me to fix damage to
> c:\ntldr etc. I believe it can also rebuild boot.ini if you have a
> nonstandard install location.
>
> John
>

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