thanks for a great site to come to :):)
I am befuddled, with my years of working on these, never have worked on an emachine til now, and find they are unique, so far in several ways.
Did an automatic (f11) non-destructive system recovery back to original state on a friend’s computer and now upon reboot,on this XPHome. when I restart the computer a very brief message flashes on the screen indicating “Invalid Boot.ini file” and “Booting from C:\Windows” and one short beep, then the computer restarts just once over.
Once that is over, everything runs good on the box, no problems anywhere with anything.
I did find a hidden boot.ini in C and also an identical one in C:\Windows\pss.
Where did this error/beep come from and how to fix?
I have done a chkdsk /f /r, no problems there.
I ran the Seagate Tools on the HDD, just in case.
What to do now and much deep thanks. 🙂
