Patch day blunder - how to fix

IF YOU HAVEN'T INSTALLED YET INSTRUCTIONS
DO THIS BEFORE YOU RUN THE PREMIUM INSTALLER. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU CAN SEE A BOOT.INI IN EXPLORER OR NOT

Save a Backup Copy of Boot.ini
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
3. Under System Startup, click Edit. This opens the file in Notepad ready for editing.
4. In Notepad, click File on the Menu bar, and then click Save As.
5. Save a copy as "boot.bak"

After you install the premium update, if you try to repeat the steps above and you're hosed, you'll get an error message that boot.ini is gone around step 2.

Go to the Start Menu->Run...
Run command
cd ..
cd ..
rename boot.bak boot.ini

And your system will be back to normal.

I just verified that this happened on my own system. Although I have it set to show invisible files there was no boot.ini file visible in either Explorer or the shell before. Nevertheless, after running the updater I got the error at step 2 above.

IF YOU ALREADY INSTALLED WITHOUT BACKING UP INSTRUCTIONS

Two choices:

IF YOU HAVEN'T REBOOTED YET, YOU CAN FIX IT FROM WINDOWS

    Quote:To fix:

    Open notepad.

    copy in:

    [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" /fastdetect

    with whatever os you have.

    go to "save as" and make sure you change it to all files (otherwise you end up with boot.ini.txt) and save as c:\boot.ini.

    go to start->run->cmd

    enter "attrib +s +h +a boot.ini" when at the c:\ prompt

    to verify, go to start->run->msconfig and there should be a tab for boot.ini

IF YOU REBOOTED AND YOUR SYSTEM DOESN'T BOOT ANYMORE:

    Quote:Boot from your OS cd. and follow the directions to start Recovery Console. Choose the corresponding number asked of you for your OS is on, normally its #1 Then type:

    Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
    DEL C:\Boot.ini
    BootCfg /Rebuild
    Fixboot

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