No boot.ini tab

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When I open msconfig, there is no boot.ini tab. Is this due to the system
being on E: instead of C:? Since I can't change the drive letter, is there
any way to get the boot.ini tab back? Thanks in advance.
 
Rawknee said:
When I open msconfig, there is no boot.ini tab. Is this due to the
system being on E: instead of C:?
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I've been through this myself, and if I remember correctly, yes, that's the
reason.

Since I can't change the drive
letter, is there any way to get the boot.ini tab back?
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Not as far as I know. I never found a way.
 
Is the system dual booting or was it?


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I used to have 2 hard drives in my system, 1 for XP and 1 for applications
and files. The hard drive with Xp started to fail, so I reformatted the 2nd
drive and installed XP there. It retained the "E:" drive label (I guess due
to the fact that I did not disconnect the C: drive until after I had
installed Windows on E:), so I'd say that for a very short time it was a dual
boot system. Thanks.
 
Select Start, Run, type "e:\boot.ini" without the quotes and click on
OK. Does this open the boot.ini file or do you get Access Denied or
similar message?


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Hope this helps.

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Stourport, England
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Yes, it does open the bott.ini file. Here are the contents:

[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
 
Is this due to the system being on E: instead of C:?

Yes. But MSCONFIG expects a boot.ini in the C:\ drive

Nope. You may have to edit the file manually.

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When I open msconfig, there is no boot.ini tab. Is this due to the system
being on E: instead of C:? Since I can't change the drive letter, is there
any way to get the boot.ini tab back? Thanks in advance.
 
Select Start, Run, type regedit and click on OK. Locate this registry
key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\state

This Registry Key should have value 2 as
Name: boot.ini
Type: Reg_DWORD
Data 0x0 (appears as longer version viewed using regedit).

My system has values 1 to 5 but where a tab is missing in the msconfig
utility the corresponding value seems to be missing in the registry.
Are some values missing e.g value 2 ?

Please do not try to correct if it is missing. Just tell us what you
find.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Yes, it does open the bott.ini file. Here are the contents:

[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

Gerry Cornell said:
Select Start, Run, type "e:\boot.ini" without the quotes and click
on
OK. Does this open the boot.ini file or do you get Access Denied
or
similar message?


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The value for "bootini" (note no "." is in the key) is 0.
The keys win.ini and system.ini do have "." in their name, but bootini does
not.
The only key that has a value other than 0 is startup, which is 2.

Thanks again to all that have replied.

Gerry Cornell said:
Select Start, Run, type regedit and click on OK. Locate this registry
key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\state

This Registry Key should have value 2 as
Name: boot.ini
Type: Reg_DWORD
Data 0x0 (appears as longer version viewed using regedit).

My system has values 1 to 5 but where a tab is missing in the msconfig
utility the corresponding value seems to be missing in the registry.
Are some values missing e.g value 2 ?

Please do not try to correct if it is missing. Just tell us what you
find.


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Yes, it does open the bott.ini file. Here are the contents:

[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

Gerry Cornell said:
Select Start, Run, type "e:\boot.ini" without the quotes and click
on
OK. Does this open the boot.ini file or do you get Access Denied
or
similar message?


--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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disappointed that the discussion ended! I'm having this issue and was wondering what the next step would be.

In my case, I get the "invalid boot.ini" at startup, but I don't recall when it started. I've been troublshooting USB problems lately, but this may be unrelated.

I've always just had one OS, and it boots fine, so maybe I shouldn't worry.

I also don't see the boot.ini tab on msconfg,
When I tried "bootcfg /list" in XP's recovery console, I got "there are currently no boot entries..."When I tried "bootcfg/ rebuild" I got "The command is not recognized"
and the value of the boot.ini in the registry folder is zero.
 
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