You will have to rename the files back to what they were. If you can
get to DOS, you should be able to do that. Then the question is why
did your XP installation fail?

hawk

wrote:
Hi:

Please help me if you can.

I had win98se on my computer. I tried to install winxp on an
empty hard drive, but the install failed. When I turned the computer
on, i would get a dual-boot screen screen letting me choose winxp or
win98.
If I chose winxp, a message comes up saying the system was halted
due to an error.

So I tried going into win98se. I was able to do it.
I noticed that a bunch of new files were on my C drive, including
boot.ini, ntldr, and some others.

I decided I wanted to get rid of this whole failed XP dual boot
setup, so I went through and renamed all the new files, putting an
"xxx" in front of their names. For instance, boot.ini now became
xxxboot.ini.

I did this to all the new files. I thought that would get rid
of the dual-boot screen that didn't work.

Well, I really screwed things up.

Now the computer won't boot at all. I even put in a win98se
boot floppy that has always worked in the past.

I am able to get the black dos-like screen that shaows c:\, but
I can't get any further.

Can someone please help me. I know I screwed up big-time, but
is there a way out of this.

If I can get back to win98se, I'll never touch that damned xp
again!!

Thank you.

dave