Geezer, visit my website http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Click the Win XP
Faq button and take a look at question 10 'How do i create an emergency
start up disk for XP' You will need a floppy disk for this. Once you have
created the floppy disk reboot your computer with the floppy in the floppy
drive. If all goes well you should be able to boot to the windows desktop.
If the emergency floppy has booted to the desktop then go to Windows
explorer and click on the floppy drive. The contents of the floppy disk will
become visible (you must have 'show hidden files and folder, etc enabled
otherwise you will not be bale to see the boot.ini file (see question 11 on
my site). Now copy the contents - boot.ini. NTDetect, NTLDR from the floppy
to your C: drive and then reboot again. Hopefully, assuming the floppy
worked, this should repair the problem and you should be able to boot as
normal.

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Associate Expert
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"geezer" <wee@willy.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:48:32 -0600, philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>boot from the XP cd and opt to enter the recovery console
>>
>>try the command: fixboot
>>
>>(you might also try: fixmbr)
>
> Thanks for your quick response.
>
> I entered the recovery console, entered 1 (for c:\windows) then
> 'fixboot' - same result. Same with 'fixmbr'.
>
> The commands seem to work okay - message said boot sector was
> modified.
>
> Maybe my problem is not with just the boot sector. Can you suggest
> anything else I might try?
>
> Thank
>
> Geezer