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What is FSCK?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

What is FSCK? Why is it required? There are several reasons behind the system file corruption. For example, you forgot to shut down your system properly, suddenly cut off the power supply, a storage device was removed when system is in process to write the data on it, accidentally press the restart button of your [...]

System is not booting

Monday, July 14th, 2008

You have seen the message “Boot disk failure” while starting your PC. The problem behind this is that the hard drive is detected but the operating system doesn’t load. You will need to reinstall the operating system or you will need to rebuild your master boot record to fix the boot problem. Below are few [...]

Requirement of Boot.ini file on Windows

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Sometimes, you may receive an error “Invalid boot.ini file. Booting from c:winnt\” and then after your PC boots normally. You are receiving this error because boot.ini is either missing or corrupted. To resolve this problem on Windows 2000 operation system, create a boot.ini file in C: drive with following contents:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT=”Microsoft Windows2000 Professional” [...]

Missing msconfig in Windows 2000

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Unfortunately, msconfig is not included in Windows 2000 operating system but there is another way to check which programs are loaded with Windows and you can also remove it from the start up. First, go to startup folder from the start menu and delete the shortcuts you do not need. Now, go to the registry [...]