Invalid BOOT.INI File, Booting From c:\windows NTDETECT Failed

Ivartyn

Member
Hi,
Gone through the posts below but I'm having the same problem eventhrough I've tried following the steps advised.

My Vista is installed on c:\ while the XP is on d:\windows.
When I try to logon to XP thats when I get the error message.

Invalid BOOT.INI File,
Booting From c:\windows
NTDETECT Failed

From EasyBCD my partitions are as follows:

Drive 0
Partition 0 (HPFS/NTFS - 79GB)
Partition 1 (HPFS/NTFS - 59GB)
Partition 2 (HPFS/NTFS - 12GB)

On partition 0 I have Vista preinstalled
Partition 1 is where I've installed XP and partition 2 has my recovery files.

My boot.ini file reads:

[boot loader]
timeout=4
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional safe Mode" /fastdetect /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog
c:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console" /cmdcons

Help needed!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
 
Hello Ivartyn Welcome to NST!

I have moved this to your own topic.

As Terry said. Read thru the Wiki. It sounds as if the NTDETECT and the boot.ini files are missing from the Boot drive.
 
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