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The version of windows you are using needs 3 files to boot properly. 1. ntldr to start the process and point to the second file boot.ini which contains your operating systems id and location on your boot sector, and thirdly you need ntdetect.com to allow the system root to be "found" and begin loading itself... These three files need to be native to the C:\ drive or your root directory on your boot sector for Windows 2k. If you boot off of c:\ but load windows on D:\ then make sure you put these files on C:\ not D:\ The first two commands you tried earlier are great. However, that just leaves you with a blank boot.ini file and this doesn't tell the ntldr what or where so it defaults to the last "active" partition and if you don't have the other files there nothing happends. So you have to coordinate!! 1. fixboot then fixmbr 2 copy or expand the original ntldr and the ntdetect.com files to the c: then run bootcfg /add to put your system in the boot.ini file you just erased with fixboot and fixmbr. Here is the way to that from windows help... Have fun!! Remarks The following is a sample of bootcfg /query output: Boot Loader Settings -------------------- timeout: 30 default: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS Boot Entries ------------ Boot entry ID: 1 Friendly Name: "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" Path: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS OS Load Options: /fastdetect /debug /debugport=com1: The Boot Loader Settings portion of the bootcfg query output displays each entry in the [boot loader] section of Boot.ini. The Boot Entries portion of the bootcfg query output displays the following detail for each operating system entry in the [operating systems] section of Boot.ini: Boot entry ID, Friendly Name, Path, and OS Load Options. Gary