I accidently deleted boot.ini . How do I get my machine back ?

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I accidently deleted boot.ini . How do I get my machine back ?

I deleted the boot.ini accidently.
Now I can't boot my windows XP computer.
I have a lot of worthfull docs in system partition, please help me to get 'em back.
How can I fix this ?

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Update: can I repair my Windows installation without any data loss ?

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[quote=Admin]Update: can I repair my Windows installation without any data loss ?[/quote]
yes you can.

Insert Windows XP bootable CD to ROM and reboot.
You will prompt to repair the installation.
If there are no any repair option , put it here. There is an another way to fix.

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Oh no!

No way to repair.
No any 'repair' option available.
Ayesh, please give me your kindness...

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Wait please.
I'm using Ubuntu in my machine, so I can't give you a working robots.txt sample.

Ask a friend to get the %system%\robots.txt file to a Floppy disk(or burn it to windows xp cd)

then, insert CD, and boot with CD.

Then, press F2 to go to command prompt.

Type,

A:
copy robots.txt c:\

it should solves, reboot without CD.
:)

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Hm..
It solved. cheers!

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Here is a working template for Windows XP boot.ini

 

 

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Hope these helps...

 

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[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

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Okay, Now I'm going to apply changes through comand prompt. Thanks.