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Alitha Maru
Minmatar
Hidden Agenda
Deep Space Engineering
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Posted - 2007.12.06 07:18:00 -
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Edited by: Alitha Maru on 06/12/2007 07:19:10
I am running Windows XP and Windows Vista, dualboot. I was in Vista when I upgraded last night before I went to bed. I obviously did not check boot.ini before I went to work because I was a bit in a hurry. But the machine is still on at home. Also, EVE is installed on a partition than both XP and Vista.
The XP partition is the first one, then comes the Vista partition which I was in when I upgraded. Am I affected when I get home (?)
I see boot.ini's for one partition, but how would I write one if I have two like this? 
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Alitha Maru
Minmatar
Hidden Agenda
Deep Space Engineering
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Posted - 2007.12.06 09:31:00 -
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Edited by: Alitha Maru on 06/12/2007 09:31:34
Ok, I'll try again. Since I am at work I can not check this yet, but just to be sure of whatever:
I have dualboot, XP and Vista. XP is on partiton 1, Vista on 2. EVE is installed on the E partition. When I upgraded I was in Vista. So that means I should be safe, yes?
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Alitha Maru
Minmatar
Hidden Agenda
Deep Space Engineering
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Posted - 2007.12.06 10:54:00 -
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Pretty please, with sugar on top, can anyone give me a response on my post here?
No one has even mentioned dual-boot systems.
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Alitha Maru
Minmatar
Hidden Agenda
Deep Space Engineering
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Posted - 2007.12.06 10:58:00 -
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 Originally by: Vikarion
Originally by: Alitha Maru
Pretty please, with sugar on top, can anyone give me a response on my post here?
No one has even mentioned dual-boot systems.
Alitha, I don't have experience with dual-boots, but you are almost certainly fine. Boot up in Vista and check the XP partition for boot.ini if you're worried, but it'll be pretty easy to fix even if it got deleted, since you can just boot in Vista.
Thank you for your reply, I can rest easier now 
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Alitha Maru
Minmatar
Hidden Agenda
Deep Space Engineering
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Posted - 2007.12.06 11:33:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Lingorm
If you have lost your boot.ini windows can still boot under the following condition.
If you windows installation is on the first Partition on the First hard drive (this is the default location for windows).
In this case, Windows will report that the boot.ini file is missing but will still find the installation and continue loading.
If your windows is install else where (such as in the case where your PC/Laptop manufacturer has created a "Restore" petition on the first petition then windows will not boot.
As to the detection of this to even see that the file is missing involves using special command line tools or turning on viewing of both "Hidden" file and "System" files.
If you have not done this the first time you will notice is when you reboot your machine. And we do not shutdown or reboot our machines often as they run tests after hours.
Well I'm at work, so I can't check. But my first partition has XP on it, and my second has Vista. I upgraded from Vista, which meant that C:\ partition had Vista on it, D:\ partition contained XP and I had installed EVE on the E:\ partition.
I do not know how that upgrade program was written, but if it was made to delete boot.ini on the C-partition specifically I guess I am ok since all boot-files is then stored on D. Right?
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