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- DOCUMENT:Q101223 13-DEC-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :REPAIR.INF File on Emergency Repair Disk
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- The REPAIR.INF file is one of several files on the Emergency Repair
- Disk and is used to check the validity of Windows NT system files. It
- has the following sections:
-
- [Repair]
-
- The Repair section has three entries:
-
- Repair.BootFiles This entry contains the Advanced RISC Computer
- (ARC) path to the files needed to boot Windows
- NT.
-
- Repair.WinntFiles This entry contains the ARC path to Windows NT
- files.
-
- Sysroot This entry points to the root of the Windows NT
- installation.
-
- [Repair.BootFiles]
-
- This section contains an entry for each of the files needed to boot
- Windows NT. The following format is used:
-
- \<source dir>\<filename>,\<filename>,"<source media>",<checksum>
-
- For example, if you installed Windows NT from a network share, a
- similar entry to the following would be present:
-
- \$WIN_NT$.~LS\NTLDR,\NTLDR,"Windows NT Setup CD-ROM",a44931ee
-
- [Repair.WinntFiles]
-
- This section contains an entry for each file installed by Windows NT
- Setup. The format is the same as the entries in the Repair.BootFiles
- section except the destination directory is also recorded:
-
- \<source dir>\<filename>,<destination dir>\<filename>,
- "<source media>",<checksum>
-
- Note: There is a backup copy of the REPAIR.INF file located in the
- root directory of the Windows NT installation called SETUP.LOG. If
- REPAIR.INF has become damaged on the Emergency Repair Disk, you can
- replace it with SETUP.LOG.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
-
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