[MiKTeX] initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists

[Paul, B. S <bp...@al...>]

I have installed MikTeX 2.7 on a Windows XP 64-bit machine.  This is the basic installation.  When I try to run latex on my files, which worked perfectly fine on a Windows XP 32-bit machine running MikTeX 2.5, it does not produce a DVI file.  Instead I get this error:

c:/progra~2/MikTeX_2.7/miktex/bin/latex.exe     bsp_phd.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists.
I can't find the default format file!

I've checked and the formats.ini file exists.  Does anyone know what the problem is?  Thanks in advance.

Brent