Hi, Gary.
HOW are you editing boot.ini? If you go to System Properties | Advanced |
Startup and Recovery / Settings, and click the Edit box there, the boot.ini
that loads into Notepad should be the one that actually is used during the
boot process. In other words, if E:\boot.ini is the "real" one, then that's
the one that you should see automatically in Notepad.
Of course, if your current boot was from C:\boot.ini, then that is the one
that will be loaded automatically.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Gary J. Dikkema" <gary_d_no_spam_@cdir.ca> wrote in message
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> See it much as you do... but I thought I'd ask just in case...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards!
>
> Gary D
>
>
>
> "Rick" <> wrote in message
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>> Because, like I said below, the system BIOS identifies the C: drive as
>> 80h and I am not aware of anything you can do to change that.
>>
>> The system BIOS could care less which drive you want to boot first, and I
>> would guess that during installation the setup program is posting to the
>> boot.ini based on the system BIOS hardware identification.
>>
>> Don't know if there is a solution or not.
>>
>> Gary J. Dikkema wrote:
>>> Rick,
>>>
>>> On the E drive I keep adding new bootable partitions/machines and I have
>>> to add their info to the E drive boot.ini file... it seems that every
>>> new bootable partition/machine I add to the SATA drive creates boot.ini
>>> on the C drive.... boot.ini ntldr et al...
>>>
>>>
>>> "Rick" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>
>>>>The EIDE drives are identified by the system as 80h and 81h. The SATA
>>>>drive is identified as 82h. The order you designate in your boot
>>>>sequence does not affect how the computer BIOS identifies the drives.
>>>>
>>>>The entry in the boot.ini is simply stating that you install to the SATA
>>>>drive, the boot image is on disk(2) and the respective partition.
>>>>
>>>>What do you keep changing and what happens after you change it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Gary J. Dikkema wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>The SATA drive is partitioned and starts at E, F, G...
>>>>>
>>>>>The two EIDE drives are listed first and are C and D
>>>>>
>>>>>So why when installing to the SATA drive - whichever partition - does
>>>>>it always update boot.ini et al on the C drive.
>>>>>
>>>>>The SATA drive is the first bootable drive in the Bios...
>>>>>
>>>>>I just keep updating the boot.ini file on E but wonder how I can
>>>>>prevent this action...
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>Gary D
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