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wettestwillie
Gallente
Best Path Inc.
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2007.12.16 04:51:00 -
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Given the recent problems with the eve installer deleting boot.ini, hearing that it causes peoples computers to not boot made me wonder about this mysterious file. So I went where everyone said it was, in C:/. I couldn't find it. Where exactly is it?
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Johnathan Roark
Caldari
Quantum Industries
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.12.16 09:36:00 -
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Windows hides it, but doesn't protect it :(
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Amida Ta
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Posted - 2007.12.16 12:01:00 -
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Well it does protect it, but obviously not from Administrators (which wouldn't make sense anyways)...
If you configure your folder to show hidden files and not hide system files you will see it in the root of your boot-drive (usually c).
If you have Vista then there is no boot.ini
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wettestwillie
Gallente
Best Path Inc.
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2007.12.16 19:15:00 -
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It is set up to view hidden files. Still don't see it. My personal comp runs vista but I'm testing it on an XP machinae.
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Shinhan
Phoenix Knights
Dark Nebula Galactic Empire
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Posted - 2007.12.17 07:26:00 -
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 Originally by: wettestwillie
It is set up to view hidden files. Still don't see it. My personal comp runs vista but I'm testing it on an XP machinae.
You also need to uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)"
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nomis ekoobmah
Minmatar
Republic University
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Posted - 2007.12.17 13:57:00 -
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The boot.ini file should have been removed years ago since it's a hang over from the DOS and early Windows days. It's only real use these days is when you have a dual boot system so you can select the OS you want to boot.
That said, maybe motherboard manufacturers should take a leaf out of ASRock's book and supply a BIOS that doesn't require a boot.ini file to start with. On my PC which has an ASRock board it just threw up a message that the boot.ini file was missing and was booting from c:\windows, no problem.
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Muscaat
Eve University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.12.18 13:45:00 -
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Originally by: nomis ekoobmah
The boot.ini file should have been removed years ago since it's a hang over from the DOS and early Windows days. It's only real use these days is when you have a dual boot system so you can select the OS you want to boot.
That said, maybe motherboard manufacturers should take a leaf out of ASRock's book and supply a BIOS that doesn't require a boot.ini file to start with. On my PC which has an ASRock board it just threw up a message that the boot.ini file was missing and was booting from c:\windows, no problem.
Someone elsewhere suggested that wasn't a BIOS thing, and I believe them. Windows' fallback seems to be to try and boot from the first partition of the first hard drive - reasonable since most Windows users don't know what disk partitions are and thus are likely to leave things as default.
BIOSes don't look for a boot.ini (else we'd all be stuck with Windows now, wouldn't we? Eeew, horrible thought), the message you got came from Windows I'm afraid.
(On a slightly orthogonal note, someone - can't remember who - is now marketing a motherboard with an embedded Linux distro on it, so you can do basic things like web browsing before Windows even boots...)
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