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Asked on 30/5/2003, 11:31

I had a Win2k installed on a Thinkpad, and it was working just as it
should for several days.

On each boot, it presented me with a small menu, asking me whether I wanted to boot "Windows 2000" or "Windows", the latter unspecified. There is no other Windows OS on the machine, only Win2k.

Out of curiosity. and in an excess of confidence a few days ago, I
chose the "Windows" option, to see what the menu had in mind. I was rewarded immediately with an error message telling me that file
NTOSKRNL.EXE was missing or corrupt.

From previous experience, I do not believe the message, and
hypothesize that in fact my experiment screwed up the file BOOT.INI (I am open to other interpretations). I know what BOOT.INI should look like, and could edit it if I could access it. Unfortunately, I have
nothing that can enter the FAT32 partition and find and open the file.

Is there a utility that will run under DOS or Win16 which will do
that? Or another suggestion?

Reply Posted on 31/5/2003

The error message comes from when you upgraded to Windows 2000. Sometimes, Windows 2000 leaves parts of the old operating system in tact.
If you enter your system using a FAT operating system you will not be able to see your boot.ini file because Windows 2000 creates the file in an NTFS partition, not a FAT partition. These are completely different methods of accessing the hard drive.
From an NTFS operating system (Windows NT, 2000 or XP) you can see a FAT operating system's hard drive, but not the other way round.

The only way to edit your boot.ini file is to start up in Windows 2000, open boot.ini in notepad (or go to the system control pannel and edit it from there)
under the [operating systems] section, remove everything except the Windows 2000 line. (there may be 2 windows 2000 lines, in which case leave both of them.

Hope this helps. If you require any further assistance, please feel free to reply to this message.

Regards,

-Lawrence Stromski, Helpforce Technical Support.

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