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Invisible wrote:
> - Build a new BOOT.INI file: bootcfg /all
>
> - This last command spends a few hours scanning all your HDs looking for
> anything that looks like a Windows installation. It then gives you an
> interactive prompt asking which ones to add to the boot menu.
Actually, that's "bootcfg /add" or /rebuild.
And, for whatever reason, it doesn't work. After a while it crashes out
with an error message about an unreadable filesystem or something.
Interestingly, it seems that placing NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM onto the
drive is sufficient to make it boot. When you boot the system, it says
"INVALID BOOT.INI; BOOTING FROM C:\WINDOWS". I'm guessing this only
works for certain cases. Since by Windows installation is your standard
"the OS is in the standard place on the first HD", it Just Works(tm).
Weirdly, once Windows has loaded there is apparently no way to recreate
a correct BOOT.INI file. However, cut-and-pasting the example one from
M$'s website seems to have fixed things nicely.
Wee, my PC works again! :-D
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Yes. Actually I already did this from KNOPPIX. Just marking the
> partition as "bootable" seemed to be enough to get me to the "CAN'T FIND
> NTLDR" message. But I found the corresponding commands (it *is* fixmbr
> and fixboot BTW) in the Recovery Console also.
OK. If you got that far, all you need to do is copy boot.ini, ntldr, and the
ohter one whose name I forget offhand, and you should be good. (I'm not 100%
sure you need boot.ini if you put windows in the obvious place, either.)
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"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Yes. Actually I already did this from KNOPPIX. Just marking the
>> partition as "bootable" seemed to be enough to get me to the "CAN'T
>> FIND NTLDR" message. But I found the corresponding commands (it *is*
>> fixmbr and fixboot BTW) in the Recovery Console also.
>
> OK. If you got that far, all you need to do is copy boot.ini, ntldr, and
> the ohter one whose name I forget offhand, and you should be good. (I'm
> not 100% sure you need boot.ini if you put windows in the obvious place,
> either.)
NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM - and no, you apparently don't need BOOT.INI (see
my other post). And there's nowhere to "copy" BOOT.INI from. ;-)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> And there's nowhere to "copy" BOOT.INI from. ;-)
Well, you could copy it onto a floppy and then from there onto the hard
drive, assuming it was the same. And you can "copy con boot.ini" I believe.
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"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
"No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."
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Muhuhuhu! The new bigger, badder PSU is here! 8-D
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Muhuhuhu! The new bigger, badder PSU is here! 8-D
The PSU is now installed. Now I'm going to download the drivers for the
new card, uninstall the drivers for the old card, and fit The Daddy... :-D
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> The PSU is now installed. Now I'm going to download the drivers for the
> new card, uninstall the drivers for the old card, and fit The Daddy... :-D
Jesus Christ, the video driver is 110 MB?? o_O
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Ooo, check this out... I didn't see this part... I also get a free copy
> of FarCry 2! :-D
>
> And "3DMark Vantage Advanced Edition" for free.
And 3DMark Vantage *only* works with Windows Vista. Oh well...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> And 3DMark Vantage *only* works with Windows Vista. Oh well...
Don't worry about it. It isn't impressive.
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"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
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Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> And 3DMark Vantage *only* works with Windows Vista. Oh well...
>
> Don't worry about it. It isn't impressive.
Heh. Oh well. It's just that I've never been able to run 3DMark
properly. (I always have the free version that's crippled so you can't
run half the tests or adjust any settings.) And now I've got a real
geniune license code to run the full product, except... but for this
version of Windows.
I guess they assume that if you just paid £200 for a card with DirectX
10 support, you'd also want to run it under an OS that supports DirectX 10.
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