5.6.2000

Coming from the "Failure Face" department, Lockergnomie Steven Groginsky shows us how to see the unseen. While the road to loading Windows is paved with good intentions, there are usually some bumps along the way. You may not "feel" every bump, however. The boot-up process is logged in a file titled BOOTLOG.TXT (found in your root folder). Therein, you'll find both load successes and failures. You probably don't wanna know what's right as much as you'll want to fix what's wrong. Go ahead and load that puppy (BOOTLOG.TXT) into Wordpad. Then, simply 'Find' every instance of the word 'Fail.' Chances are, you're missing a few device drivers... which can most likely be found on your Windows install CD. Put "found" missing files somewhere in your path (like your Windows \ System folder) and try booting again. This is just another troubleshooting trick; if Windows doesn't log its boot process, add the line: "DISABLELOG=0" (without the quotes) to your MSDOS.SYS.