Cant restart Windows NT server 4.0

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diane ranslow - 10 Sep 2004 18:52 GMT

changed the boot.ini file on our Windows nt 4.0 server
and when restarted could not get booted. We tried the
emergency repair disk, but that wouldnt work. anyone
have any idea what to do. it goes up to verifying dmi
pool and then we get a page default and then a bunch of
letters and numbers for about 6 lines

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Dave Patrick - 10 Sep 2004 19:36 GMT

Ok, I'll bite. What was the text of the file before and after the change?
And why did you change it?

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| changed the boot.ini file on our Windows nt 4.0 server
| and when restarted could not get booted. We tried the
| emergency repair disk, but that wouldnt work. anyone
| have any idea what to do. it goes up to verifying dmi
| pool and then we get a page default and then a bunch of
| letters and numbers for about 6 lines

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Dave Patrick - 10 Sep 2004 19:44 GMT

Or try creating a boot disk. For the floppy to successfully boot Windows NT
the disk must contain the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on an NT
machine, not a DOS/Win9x, so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy),
and copy ntldr, ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys.
Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to
boot.

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