EVE: HALP MY BOOT.INI IS GONE

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Bund wrote: »

The premium installer is deleting boot.ini from at least some systems. This kills your machine. Make a copy, and make sure you replace it after install, if it gets whacked.

Vista users aren't affected, but haha you're using Vista, you should kill yourself anyway.

Discussion in the bug thread:

http://goonfleet.com/showpost.php?p=1542583&postcount=30

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022 may help with repairing a fucked system. Protip: don't reboot.


IF YOU HAVEN'T INSTALLED YET INSTRUCTIONS

DO THIS BEFORE YOU RUN THE PREMIUM INSTALLER. I DON'T CARE IF YOU CAN SEE A BOOT.INI IN EXPLORER OR NOT

Save a Backup Copy of Boot.ini
1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
3. Under System Startup, click Edit. This opens the file in Notepad ready for editing.
4. In Notepad, click File on the Menu bar, and then click Save As.
5. Save a copy as "boot.bak"


After you install the premium update, if you try to repeat the steps above and you're hosed, you'll get an error message that boot.ini is gone around step 2.

Go to the Start Menu->Run...
Run command
cd ..
cd ..
rename boot.bak boot.ini

And your system will be back to normal.

I just verified that this happened on my own system. Although I have it set to show invisible files there was no boot.ini file visible in either Explorer or the shell before. Nevertheless, after running the updater I got the error at step 2 above.


IF YOU ALREADY INSTALLED WITHOUT BACKING UP INSTRUCTIONS

Two choices:


IF YOU HAVEN'T REBOOTED YET, YOU CAN FIX IT FROM WINDOWS



IF YOU REBOOTED AND YOUR SYSTEM DOESN'T BOOT ANYMORE:

Reposting for our newbees that may possibly be fucked.

They took down the xp updater and there's only the full install of 1.2 gb which apprently doesn't affect it. Seperate partitions and drives are also randomly affected/not affected it seems.