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Posted on 12-06-07 05:03:44 AM Link | Quote
Jul - Post #1739 - 12-06-07 12:03:44am
All I can say is...



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Posted on 12-06-07 10:14:24 AM Link | Quote
Oh, what.

That's really, really fucked. Who thought that was a good idea? Why isn't that file fucking protected?

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Posted on 12-06-07 10:21:09 AM Link | Quote
Boot.ini is meant to be editable normally (like, uh, I did a few days ago on BMF's computer to change the boot timeout)

To prove my point, look how long this has gone without anything really happening to boot.ini. It's just some company's shitty coding that blew up things with it.

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Posted on 12-07-07 03:47:07 PM Link | Quote
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It does not 'corrupt' the installation. One can simply use a boot disk to replace the bad boot.ini with a new one. That is why this isn't quite a big deal. Now, perhaps if it started screwing with \Windows... >.>

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Rena
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Posted on 12-07-07 04:47:23 PM Link | Quote
Jul - Post #1750 - 12-07-07 11:47:23am
If you have a boot disk, know what broke, and know how to fix it, yes.

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Posted on 12-07-07 04:48:36 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by HyperHacker
If you have a boot disk, know what broke, and know how to fix it, yes.

Hiren's BootCD, the internet, the internet.

Even without that, I'm fairly sure you can fix the bootup process with the WinXP install disk.

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Posted on 12-07-07 05:42:36 PM (last edited by Acmlm at 12-07-07 02:46 PM) Link | Quote
If the computer came with one (mine didn't but had a recovery partition), or if they're smart enough to even think about that ...

As for that bug, good thing they didn't name their files "ntldr" or "ntdetect.com", since they can also be deleted (but it changed to "grldr" in Vista)

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Posted on 12-07-07 05:45:15 PM Link | Quote

Somewhat old wintery layout!
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Silly CCP

But yeah. Children. This is why you double check your code

And if you didnt know, there is a boot.ini.backup file in your System32/something folder. (That's how I restored mine).

This is why I'm glad I never restart my computer

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