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Author I kinda broke our main laptop. Whoops.
corb
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26th Dec 04 at 15:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Its got spyware etc. all over the fucker, and a couple days ago, some 'preparing to start plug-in' window started popping up, so thought id delete everything from the last 3 days. Well, I deleted what I can only imagine is a fairly important file, cos the the bastard wont start up. A file called 'system.ini' sounds fairly important bugga!
Robbo
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26th Dec 04 at 15:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
u done a google search for said file?
corb
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i dunno how to put it back onto the laptop, even if i did find it! A mate is gonna have a go at repairing it, hes gotta re-install windows apparently.
Robbo
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26th Dec 04 at 15:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Oops
Robbo
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26th Dec 04 at 15:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
5th down may help

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=system.ini&meta=
corb
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Just hope me dad doesnt notice the laptops are swapped at the mo, cant get it sorted til wednesday.
corb
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26th Dec 04 at 15:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
im running windows 2000 on it, does that make any difference?
Robbo
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26th Dec 04 at 15:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Not 2 sure mate soz
corb
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26th Dec 04 at 15:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
okie dokie, cheers mate, thanks for the advice, i hate computers
Marc
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MikeD
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when it starts to boot does it come up with the black and white windows screen where it says press f8 blah blah blah?
corb
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format
MikeD
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ok i wont bother if im invisible?
Ev0s
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If you boot it with a floppy boot disk then do a search of the hard drive using dos there is usually a backup system.ini file usually called system.!~! or system.ini.backup.Once you find this just rename it to system.ini and you laptop should work as normal.

[Edited on 26-12-2004 by Ev0s]
James_DT
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Just run Windows repair. You'll keep your settings, but get Windows back. Very few know about this.
MikeD
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quote:
Originally posted by Ev0s
If you boot it with a floppy boot disk then do a search of the hard drive using dos there is usually a backup system.ini file usually called system.!~! or system.ini.backup.Once you find this just rename it to system.ini and you laptop should work as normal.

[Edited on 26-12-2004 by Ev0s]


yes unless its NTFS

 
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