Originally by: Phoenixhawk

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http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/12/06/1312254.shtml

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Originally by: Arctulias

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Edited by: Arctulias on 06/12/2007 07:34:45
Edited by: Arctulias on 06/12/2007 07:21:25
For those saying I can't find my boot.ini, it is a hidden system file.

Go to start -> run -> cmd
Type
find "" C:\boot.ini

If its there it should read something like
---------- C:\BOOT.INI
If its not there it should say
File not found - C:\boot.ini

One more thing

Make sure to lock your boot file if you copied it in there and didn't use the windows restore.

In the command prompt
type
attrib +r +s +h C:/boot.ini

That will put it back to a read-only hidden system file.

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Originally by: Beara

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ok. I restored my computer to an earlier date and that worked. My question now is do I uninstall eve then reinstall it or just use the patch? If this was answered before I'm sorry, I only read 7 pages in the begining of this thread. Thanks

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HAHAHAH im fixed :) my computer tech friend (currently in school for it anyways) (and im at his house)hooked me up big time but i had already uninstalled EVE good lucks sp2 users and may u be as blessed as me.
ohh btw i love that c/100mil or i'll boot.ini your ship awsome

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Originally by: Yoshi Horohito

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The Yoshi Horohito fix:

Here is what I did and it seems to be working for me, as I just rebooted and risked my computer not working to help the rest of you.

Now I have Windows 2000 professional and have no idea if this is a fix for Windows XP, but checking won't hurt.

So I went to start and then search, to search my files and folders for "boot.ini". I came up with a boot.ini located in my Eve folder (good job guys) and a boot.ini.backup located in C:\WINNT\pss. I copied the file called boot.ini.backup to my desktop and opened it with notepad......it looked pretty ok based on what you guys have been typing as what should be in it. I went up to file then save as and saved it as boot.ini.

On my desktop it still had the .backup extension just to **** me off so I clicked on the name of the file to rename it and simply deleted the .backup part of the name thus leaving it called boot.ini

I then copied this new boot.ini file (it magically transformed its icon appearance when I deleted .backup) to my C drive. I did this by opening "my computer" then doubble clicking the C: drive and dragging the boot.ini file in there.

I did the test to see if I had a boot.ini file now by doing what CCP said to check: Start: Control Panel: System: Advanced: Startup and Recovery: Settings.

This time it didn't alert me to my boot.ini file being missing, originally it had.

I then crossed my fingers and restarted my computer as it was the only way I would find out if this boot.ini.backup file that I had converted had all the info in it necessary to allow my computer to actually reboot correctly.

Since I am making this post here, I'm assuming this fixed my computer and the boot.ini file I put in the C: drive is still there and hasn't re-disappeared or anything.

So hopefully that will help the few of you who have not rebooted your computer yet and are waiting for CCP to figure something like this out for you.......

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Originally by: Polinus

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Originally by: Ailean Caldaire

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Originally by: Kordesh

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Just a note, it's equally as outrageous to demand the firing and total disruption of some poor sap who misplaced a "/" somewhere amongst billions of lines of code. But then again, people are out for blood, and being sensible is out the window for most people right now.

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It's not outrageous. This is a serious example of someone (or someones) not doing their job(s) and they should be punished. If a factory is producing sparkplugs for your car and a bunch come through faulty, and make it all the way out into cars, someone should be fired to take care of those who's cars didn't start. QA (quality assurance) is a big part of programming any major piece of software from a major company, which CCP is. It may be slightly outrageous to say "Oh, fire the programmer, hang him/shoot him/castrate him", but the QA guys/gals should definitely be given a severe going over and the department should be reworked.

It is CCP's responsibility to us as consumers to produce a product that is going to be safe to use, just as it is the responsibility of McDonald's to produce "safe" food. If McD's puts out burgers with E.Coli in them they get sued, so there should definitely be repercussions for CCP. That being said, the talk of lawsuits is quite premature. If CCP doesn't respond to this, sure..sue them to the best of your ability. FIRST, give them a change to respond and apologize for the damage they have caused. They have a lot of egg on their faces right now and I'd be willing to bet that there is a lot of finger pointing and name calling going on in Iceland right now.

Let them get this mess sorted out, make an official statement/response, then start talking lawsuits and reimbursement. For now, lets just get the problem fixed.

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No! You completely wrong! And any company controlled in such way would be a disaster!

You do NEVER fire a good employee just because he made 1 mistake, doesn't matter how serious it was. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. If he constantly did that type of stuff, then yes, firing would be reasonable.

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Originally by: Iwishai Wazahero

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Can I make a request please, Unfortunatly i've read a lot of this thread and i'd like to ask one thing of all those people that have "Destroyed your computer beyond repair , Lost data, lost the will to live etc"

Proof Or Stfu

I have a feeling a lot of you, (Notsaying all) fall into one of the following catagories.

Catagory A: I have corrected the problems that your crappy patch did to my boot.ini file and all is now working. However i'm going to ***** and cause drama on teh interweb to inflate me e-peen and enlarge the drama-bomb.

Catagory B: I didn't even download your patch till AFTER the error was corrected but i'm going to pretend I did anyway and goto teh forums, Lolz.

Catagory C: This catagory is for those unfortunate folks that TRULLY are computer illitirate, And if anything like my good old brother would have tried to resolve this problem by smacking the case repeatably with an appopiate tool (Hammer) .

YES, the error on CCP's part was a stupid one, but come on people, Who hasn't misstyped something while working or made a slight mistake. At the end of the day it's not the end of the world, and for those of you crying about your work pc being dead and the **** your in ! Why have games on your work pc ffs

Iwishai

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Originally by: Iwishai Wazahero

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YES, the error on CCP's part was a stupid one, but come on people, Who hasn't misstyped something while working or made a slight mistake.

Iwishai

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Originally by: NeoTheo

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Originally by: Iwishai Wazahero

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YES, the error on CCP's part was a stupid one, but come on people, Who hasn't misstyped something while working or made a slight mistake.

Iwishai

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NO, JUST NO.

Sisi is there for a reason, someone reported this in a topic on the forums days previous. (admittedly i dont know if they /bugged it). Secondly they had been patching Sisi right upuntill the day they launched the patch.

EVERYONE on the test server was saying "this patch aint ready" (or at least a huge number of us), however ccp decided to "stick its head down and run at it" like a bull in a china shop, and OHHHHH look what happened.

i have been working in computing for 15 years, and whilst yes we all make mistakes, this smacks of lax testing proceedures, and total dissregard of any sort of proceedure in order to make a launchdate.

Trinity shouldnt have gone live yet, i knew that, ccp should have know that, and now the whole worlds computing press knows it.

shame really cause i love this game, but in all honesty, i am disgusted.

/Theo.

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Originally by: Marcus Ailichi

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I'm sure this has been suggested already, but rather than blaming CCP, how about blaming micrsoft for putting system critical text file in your root that is possible to be deleted.

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Originally by: eveplayer11

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Hillmar, Oveur & rest please dont die of stress We love you..

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Originally by: Barakkus

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yes

and since people aren't going to read a whole 50 pages of posts i'll just repost this again:

if you have this issue and can not boot to the point of being able to recreate the file youself see this article for instructions on how to recreate the boot.ini file via the recovery console from your windows xp cd.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330184/en-us

this will recreate the file without having to try to figure it out youself

if you can can not boot from an XP cd, get a set of boot floppies made from a good installation of xp somewhere, then you can use a usb floppy to get a recovery console to repair your installation, but you will need access to a machine that has a working copy of xp installed on it

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824632/en-us

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Originally by: Tango Sokolov

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Edited by: Tango Sokolov on 06/12/2007 08:04:24

Originally by: Tango Sokolov

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Here is why restarting your computer even with a nuked boot.ini works:

If you have edited nothing after your boot.ini was killed, and you restart, Windows will choke while trying to find the file and call to the backup. It replaces the file on it's own. I AM NOT SAYING GO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER.

I however, am on a boot camped MacBook Pro, and am now screwed. Very very screwed.

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OKAY! I finally fixed the issue without having to go back a few days and delete a bunch of my new Illustrator work in the process.

FOR BOOT CAMP USERS:

Your boot.ini file should look like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Boot Camp makes an odd partition and I haven't figured out it's use, but that means it puts XP on the third partition. It also requires "/noexecute=optin".

This has been tested and works fine. Follow the normal instructions to creating a new boot.ini file and place the above text in the file instead. I hope this helps, I'm not sure how many Boot Camp users there are out there. This is also exactly like the Dell boot.ini, but with partition 3 instead of 2.

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Originally by: Nicho Void

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Originally by: eveplayer11

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Hillmar, Oveur & rest please dont die of stress We love you..

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This. Keep fighting the good fight.

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