BOOT.INI Required for Repair Process w/o Emergency Repair Disk

 Last reviewed: September 17, 1997
Article ID: Q139894
3.50 3.51 4.0 WINDOWS kbother

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0

If you do not have an emergency repair disk (ERD) available, you can still repair a Windows NT installation by using the 3 setup disks to boot the system with disk 1. You can often boot the system if your CDRom drive supports bootable CD's (the El Torito CDRom specification). Once setup has begun, select the R option to repair the NT installation. When setup asks if you have a ERD disk, select no and setup will look at the boot.ini file for an installation path. Setup will try to find the repair directory from that path (%SystemRoot%\Repair) and use the registry files in that directory for repairs.

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q102873
   TITLE     : Boot.ini and ARC Path Naming Conventions

KBCategory: kbother
KBSubcategory: ntgeneral
Additional reference words: 3.50 3.51 4.0 prodnt
Keywords : ntgeneral kbother
Version : 3.50 3.51 4.00
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: September 17, 1997
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