Boot Up Problem

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I cannot boot up on my gateway computer.
I t has two physical drives (c and D) one has ME the other had XP.
I had a dual boot setup. I eliminated the XP oon the D drive. No
problems. It went smoothly.
In booting up I still had to select either ME or XP In an effortf to
eliminate this annoyance I edited the Boot.ini. A big mistake since I
inadvertantly dropped ME. Now thecomputer triesto boot up to XP and
"hangs" when it can"t find it. Without going into painful detail I
have ttried every way I know to get into the computer. If I can gat
to the C drive my problem will be solved since I can then reedit the
boot.ini.

Tom H

 

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Go to www.bootdisk.com , and download the Windows ME boot disk image. Use it to
make a bootable Windows ME floppy diskette, the kind used to boot Windows ME
prior to running the entire install of the operating system. This should allow
you to see the C: drive, and edit boot.ini. But I forget whether or not a text
editor is included with the basic Windows ME boot disk. If not, do the same
with the Windows 98SE boot disk, which DOES have the EDIT program.

.... Ben Myers.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:01:52 GMT, teh7 wrote:

>I cannot boot up on my gateway computer.
>I t has two physical drives (c and D) one has ME the other had XP.
> I had a dual boot setup. I eliminated the XP oon the D drive. No
>problems. It went smoothly.
>In booting up I still had to select either ME or XP In an effortf to
>eliminate this annoyance I edited the Boot.ini. A big mistake since I
>inadvertantly dropped ME. Now thecomputer triesto boot up to XP and
>"hangs" when it can"t find it. Without going into painful detail I
>have ttried every way I know to get into the computer. If I can gat
>to the C drive my problem will be solved since I can then reedit the
>boot.ini.
>
>Tom H