I was shutting down my computer, but when it said "Saving your settings", it froze. This happens when I have Windows Defender running, and this is normal, so I pressed the handy restart button. When Windows started up, it checked the disk, and said that boot.ini was invalid (or something) and it had to be truncated - I've seen this message enough to know that that means "yeah, we just deleted it". After that, Windows started fine.

So now, I have no boot.ini file, which I'm pretty sure I need to boot. I'm scared to restart just in case Windows craps out without it.

When I go to System Properties, Advanced tab, Startup and Recovery Settings, it gives me this message:

The C:\boot.ini file cannot be opened. Operating System and Timeout settings can not be changed.

I googled that, but the only thing that comes up is something about Windows Server 2003, which I don't have (I've got XP). Can anyone recommend any help? It would be much appreciated.

put in your xp setup disk

choose repair.

Forgot to mention, I don't have the disk

can you not do a system restore?

Haha... turned it off a while ago.

I have made you a new boot.ini file, I hope this helps.

Thanks, I'll test it. I hope it works.

Edit: It works! Thanks

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Originally posted by Caboose
It works! Thanks

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