Yup, it wasn't on the W2k drive, it was on the master boot drive.
C:\boot.ini but since the system does what I want it to, I'm going
to leave well enough alone. Probably as a side effect of BootMagic,
the master boot drive, which had been I:, is now where it should be,
intuitively anyway, at C:
Ron;
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:53 -0500, Ron Watson wrote:
Tried that, it still wasn't there. It's a mystery....
Ron;
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 00:06 -0500, Ron Watson wrote:
The W2k bootloader that comes up doesn't show anything but
Win98 and Win2k for options. I can't figure out where they're storing
this info,
there doesn't seem to be BOOT.INI, it's not in the registry, duh. The
only file in the
whole system with the string "/fastdetect" is ntldr.
boot.ini is a hidden file in the root directory of the partition the
bootloader is installed into, usually C:\
You'll need to turn on the option in Explorer to "View Hidden and System
Files" to see it.
Did you look in the root directory of all of your drives?
You could also try starting notepad and opening C:\BOOT.INI by actually
typing in the full name of the file in the file selection dialog, which
would open the file even if it was hidden, as long as it's there of
course.
Paul.
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