invalid boot.ini

anonymusneo said:

i just formatted my c:

after 5 months i had winxp sp2 on it..

so after formating and reinstalling xp s2
my system is very slow at bootup


infact it takes 5 mins to come to winxp loading screen

i have p4 2.4ghz 256 ddr ram etc etc


it just gives error


invalid boot.ini
booting from c:\windows

and takes 5 mins b4 the xp loading screen ,



HELP!!

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Follow this link :- *support.microsoft.com/kb/330184

Very simple to recover your sys.

Go to Control Panel->System..click on Advanced tab and then settings of "Startup & Recovery"..
In system startup click on edit button...and copy the text in opened windows....and paste it here......in this thread

just make a new boot.ini with this text :

[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


after this save the file as type "all files" and name it boot.ini (save it in my docs) then go to c: and enable viewing of hidden files and folders. and also both the option below as hide protected system files and the other one too.. now if you have a boot.ini in C: then open it and delete anything written in it .. now copy the text which i wrote above and save the file (YOU WILL ALSO HAVE TO REMOVE READ ONLY ATTRIB. OF THE FILE FIRST)

IF YOU find no file in c: then copy the file you saved in MY DOCS there and change its attrib to read only ..


YOUR SYSTEM WILL BOOT OK now

i got one more prob


after sometime , my sound card's drivers (2 sound cards )go kaboom like umm, i have to uninstall the sound card and refresh the harware menu and it come's back fine.

neither i found any virus nor anything else, any suggestions for this?

why two sound cards ... They are collapsing whitheach other... JUST USE ONE... it will be fine.. it is said that we should never use two sound cards together

till 4 yaers i had 2 sound cards on my system


1) creative sound blaster

2) intels onboard sound card ..


till now


and my scan disk just showed me 4kb bad sectors on my c drive

i got samsung's 40gb hdd ATA
c: 5GB
d: 10gb
e: 10 gb
f: 13 gb


any solution for bad sectors?

Disable Onboard audio from BIOS or remove the Creative sound card. Use only 1 not 2.

my sound cards are working fine not, however


what about evil 4kb bad sectors?
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anonymusneo said:

my sound cards are working fine not, however


what about evil 4kb bad sectors?

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lol i mean they are working fine now, but what about 4kb bad sectors my hdd just got?

are they going to be poroblem, i tried bad sector repair by scan disk but it was unable to repair them , any idea's guys?

at what point are the bad sectors.. means at the END , beginning or middle

shantanu_webmaster said:

at what point are the bad sectors.. means at the END , beginning or middle

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i dont know..

it just said

4 Kb bad sectors

with rest of information of files etc

then you should boot with win98se bootable and run scandisk and thorough scan.. coz 4kb badsectors can be anywhere.... but they can hang your system.. so better scan your disk and you will come to know where they are.. and after that you need to repartition your Drive with leaving that area..

shantanu_webmaster said:

then you should boot with win98se bootable and run scandisk and thorough scan.. coz 4kb badsectors can be anywhere.... but they can hang your system.. so better scan your disk and you will come to know where they are.. and after that you need to repartition your Drive with leaving that area..

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how do i repair it wihout leaving bad sector area?
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shantanu_webmaster said:

then you should boot with win98se bootable and run scandisk and thorough scan.. coz 4kb badsectors can be anywhere.... but they can hang your system.. so better scan your disk and you will come to know where they are.. and after that you need to repartition your Drive with leaving that area..

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ok my question is ,, how do i repair those bad sectors?


and

if i do Fdisk will it change it ? or not?

Use Disk Doctor or some other utility

and do

Zero Fill Hard Disk
Low Level Format