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Change location of boot.ini

  • 04-09-2005 12:52pm
    #1
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭


    Hi. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to change where windows searches for boot.ini? Whats happening is that I've got 2 partitions with win98 on the first and winxp on the second. But the boot.ini for winxp is on the first partition. I've copied it to the second but windows is still trying to load the one from the first partition. Where do I change where windows looks for it?


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  • #2
    Wandering Dazed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Wandering Dazed


    What exactly are you trying to do? Windows always looks for the boot.ini in the root directory of the active partition. If both os's load fine then all is working ok. You generally edit the boot.ini to point to different os's on separate partitions.


  • #3
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Zapho


    What happens is that when I set the first partition active, it boots the boot.ini just fine, and I can load XP (i don't want to boot the win98 partition, which is the first partition) but when I set the XP partition active, it doesn't boot at all.

    It doesn't really matter now, seen as I just formatted and started again. It was much easier. I hate messing with partitions.


  • #4
    Wandering Dazed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Wandering Dazed


    Probably because when you installed xp with 98 installed (I assume that was what happened) xp copied its boot files/boot record onto the first partition. I hate editing the boot.ini as well always gets messy. ;)


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