At startup, the Windows XP boot loader, NTLDR, reads the information stored to the boot.ini file to determine which operating systems the computer can boot from and uses this data to create a boot ...

Then I cover problems that can occur during the boot process and show you how to use you new knowledge to troubleshoot those problems. The Initial Turn-on POST, Power On Self Test, is what every ...

For reasons I'd rather not get into, I messed up my boot.ini file. Before I went through the ordeal that I did, I had a dual boot of Windows 98 and XP, now, all the 98 files are still intact, but the ...

I don't have a floppy disk drive in my laptop and I would like to boot into MSDOS mode.<BR><BR>Is it possible to do using boot.ini to load a file that would mimick this?<BR><BR>Or a USB ...

I recently set up one of my test PCs to dual boot Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Since I installed Windows Server 2008 last, that's now the default OS. So the PC automatically boots into Server ...

How can it be fixed? The issue can be solved by editing the boot.ini file manually with the correct partition number. Another way to solve the issue is by rebuilding the Boot.ini file. The computer ...

Q. I’d like to change the time for which you can select the default OS or the other one. With my OS combination, I’m not able to find boot.ini. Is there a software to change the setting? Q. I have an ...

QUESTION: My Windows XP system (768MB of DDR memory)would boot in 30 seconds or less until I installed a second hard drive (Maxtor 7200 80 gigabyte NTFS). The primary C: drive is formatted with FAT32.