boot.ini disappears

[PaulBarron]

On a W2K Advanced server whenever I reboot it says my boot.ini is not there. To get around this I have to boot up from the CD and do a repair from the console. I then copy over a boot.ini file from another server. This gets me in OK.

However, this problem occurs whenever I reboot the server. Any ideas why and what I can do about it

 

[Zelandakh]

Once you are in correctly, is boot.ini in the root level? Sounds like you are using boot.ini but it is not being put in the right place.

 

[PaulBarron]

Yes, the boot.ini is copied to the root. The next time I boot up though it can't be seen for some reason

 

[Zelandakh]

Is it marked as hidden for some reason?

Can you read it in My Computer properties?

 

[PaulBarron]

I am still having this problem. Whenever I rebbot my server it says;

Invalid boot.ini file. Booting from Windows 2000

Then it says;

Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe Please reinstall a copy of the above file

As I said above the only way round this is to boot from the windows 2000 cd, go into the recovery console and copy a boot.ini over from the emergency floppy disk.

I copy the boot.ini into the root of c: then it reboots ok. However, the next time I reboot the error reappears and I have to go through this process every time I do a reboot.

Can anyone please help. I am very concerned about this.

Thanks

 

[zhtgong]

I think this is not your system error,maybe it caused by virus.