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From: Marcy on 15 Dec 2009 13:24
Horray. Simple enough. I actually thought of MOVING the boot.ini file to the
correct location but I did nt want to risk messing up. Thanks. Now I can
proceed with my malware cleanup.
Thanks to all.

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Thanks so very much for your help-! ! ! !
"John John - MVP" <audetweld(a)nbnot.nb.ca> wrote in message
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> Marcy wrote:
>
>> John:
>> you said: The boot.ini tab isn't showing in the Msconfig utility because
>> the
>> boot.ini file is not in its proper location, the file has to be in the
>> root of the system drive, usually C:\, alongside the NTDETECT.COM &
>> ntldr files.
>>
>> Me: How do I get it back to the Msconfig Utility OR do I really need to
>> do this. I need to UNCHECK the safeboot box in Msconfig or wherever I can
>> do this. If I were to shut down my pc before I do this, I will have to
>> do all these steps over again (recovery consel) and fear damage to my pc
>> can happen.
>
> You said that you found a copy of it in C:\windows, copy it from there to
> C:\. Msconfig looks for the boot.ini file in the root of the system
> drive, if the file isn't there msconfig doesn't display the boot.ini tab.
>
> John


From: John John - MVP on 15 Dec 2009 15:48
Marcy wrote:
> Horray. Simple enough. I actually thought of MOVING the boot.ini file to the
> correct location but I did nt want to risk messing up. Thanks. Now I can
> proceed with my malware cleanup.
> Thanks to all.

You're welcome.

John
From: Jose on 15 Dec 2009 17:26
On Dec 15, 12:50 pm, "Marcy" <nos...(a)nospam.net> wrote:
> Jose:
> I have long ago unhidden my files and folders (hence was able to see the
> boot.ini.bak file and rename it) from the folder view tab-
> What I can't do is UNCHECK the safeboot box in msconfig because its not
> there to uncheck.
> You said that " The boot.ini needs to be in C:\" .....well the boot.ini was
> not in  C:\ but rather this area: C:\windows.
> While I await for some answers from you all,  I am doing a AVG scan.
>

Well, that is not where it is supposed to be of course.

What part of my instructions were incorrect - tell me what was wrong
so I can fix it so it is more clear the next time!

I think I said after you are sure you are in C:\WINDOWS (which you
were)...

cd \
attrib -shr boot.ini
ren boot.ini boot.ini.bak



From: John John - MVP on 15 Dec 2009 17:47
Jose wrote:
> On Dec 15, 12:50 pm, "Marcy" <nos...(a)nospam.net> wrote:
>> Jose:
>> I have long ago unhidden my files and folders (hence was able to see the
>> boot.ini.bak file and rename it) from the folder view tab-
>> What I can't do is UNCHECK the safeboot box in msconfig because its not
>> there to uncheck.
>> You said that " The boot.ini needs to be in C:\" .....well the boot.ini was
>> not in C:\ but rather this area: C:\windows.
>> While I await for some answers from you all, I am doing a AVG scan.
>>
>
> Well, that is not where it is supposed to be of course.
>
> What part of my instructions were incorrect - tell me what was wrong
> so I can fix it so it is more clear the next time!
>
> I think I said after you are sure you are in C:\WINDOWS (which you
> were)...
>
> cd \
> attrib -shr boot.ini
> ren boot.ini boot.ini.bak

The commands run in the current folder, you need to cd to the root
folder or use a fully qualified path.

John
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