Windows XP boot problem

[milomak]

The bugger won't boot. Got into Recovery Console and found boot.ini was missing. Ran bootcfg /rebuild. Added /fastdetect as an option.

Boot.ini shows the partition as multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1). map shows the partition as \Device\Harddisk2\Partition0. Is this data consistent?

 

[kronoSX]

strange do you have a boot cd

 

[milomak]

A boot cd?

 

[Amida]

Here is my boot file:

[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

 

[milomak]

bootcfg /rebuild recreated a boot.ini so I now have one. The multidisk part bolded in my op is from the regenerated boot.ini. I am not familiar with how Windows refers to drives, so I am concerned that boot.ini points to rdisk(0) while fixmbr points to \Device\Harddisk2.

 

[Amida]

I'm not to sure as I've only used fixmbr once a long time ago. Where can I check the "\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0" then I can have a look for you on my pc?

Also did you try to boot after just running the bootcfg /rebuild?

 

[milomak]

The map command shows you what letters are mapped to what device.

Ran bootcfg /rebuild, fixboot then fixmbr. did a reboot. Nothing. At the point it would say Booting Windows or whatever, some letters disappear from the BIOS info displayed on screen.