boot.ini

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Do you have multiple drives/volumes? If so, which one is designated as
"active"? Are the system and boot volumes the same or different? Msconfig
looks to the volume designated as "system" for this file, so if it is not
there it will not see it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[bearman]

Bearman

Please indulge me. What disk utility was used to create the Partitions?

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Regards.

Gerry

My main drive (F which has XPSP2 was set up by the local vendor so I have
no idea what he used to partition. My other drive (C: and G were set up
by me using Western Digital's Data Lifeguard.

 

[bearman]

Do you have multiple drives/volumes? If so, which one is designated as
"active"? Are the system and boot volumes the same or different? Msconfig
looks to the volume designated as "system" for this file, so if it is not
there it will not see it.

It's weird. My XP drive (F is active and my C: drive (Win98SE) is also
designated active. I used Aida32 and Evergreen to get those results. My G:
drive isn't designated anything. C: and G: are on the same hard drive. My
computer boots into XP (from F: I assume since that's where XP resides).
Acronis True Image says both F: and C: are primary and active

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Copy (not Move) it to C:, what happens then?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[bearman]

Boot.ini shows up in msconfig.

Hi,

Copy (not Move) it to C:, what happens then?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Curious, but it indicates that the installation "believes" that the boot (in
ms terms: system) partition is C:.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Boot.ini shows up in msconfig.

 

[bearman]

Here is the boot.ini file.

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

B

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Yep, that indicates that the system is booting from the first partition on
the first drive. I *think* (and am still working on proving) that this has
to do with the initial drive enumeration achieved during setup.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Here is the boot.ini file.

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

B

Curious, but it indicates that the installation "believes" that the boot
(in ms terms: system) partition is C:.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org