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Re: 💻 What’s the First App You Install on a Fresh Windows Machine? 1 Week Ago by Reverend Jim …; with appropriate adjustments being made according to the hidden desktop.ini file. What an abortion of a file system. And OneDrive… Re: How to recover the data from laptop? 2 Months Ago by Reverend Jim … would be to go to another computer and create a boot USB such as a linux LiveUSB, or a Macrium Reflect… or EaseUS recovery USB. The last two boot into a WindowsPE OS. Howeever, if you are running Windows… boot.ini 15 Years Ago by josephtcoste … renamed file and rebooted and everything went well except the boot.ini file disappeared. I retraced my steps and tried again. I… rebooted with no problems except the boot.ini file disappears, vanishes. Temporarily I redo this proceedure each time… Re: boot.ini 15 Years Ago by josephtcoste [QUOTE=phpbeginners;955110]when you reboot boot.ini is automatically hide by the window system you can unhide those file using Attrib DOS Command.[/QUOTE] boot.ini is erased everytime I reboot. I receive "invalid" message. When I copy boot.ini from my media storage, it works, but only once because on reboot it is erased! Re: boot.ini 15 Years Ago by ipradip … hidden files . if you want to create boot.ini file then here is the format [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk… Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect type this and save as boot.ini and copy it into c: drive and hide it. Re: boot.ini 15 Years Ago by phpbeginners don't copy the boot.ini if it is always erase just use windows xp professional because in vista no boot.ini anymore maybe your xp media center have different settings on booting the system or it follows vista style i am not sure just anaylyze your system. Re: boot ini 19 Years Ago by jaishankar …QUOTE=Peterpan123]I had a invali boot ini file, allthough windows booted up ok…to fix it. unfortunatley i now have two boot files, and i want to remove one. …is ur boot menu showing two similar OS, then Go to Start-Run and type 'c:/boot.ini' without… quotes, now an ini file will open with the boot loader, now delete… Re: boot.ini 15 Years Ago by phpbeginners when you reboot boot.ini is automatically hide by the window system you can unhide those file using Attrib DOS Command. boot ini 19 Years Ago by Peterpan123 I had a invali boot ini file, allthough windows booted up ok I used RECOVERY CONSOLE to fix it. unfortunatley i now have two boot files, and i want to remove one. how to i delete one of them? :sad: Re: boot.ini 19 Years Ago by BFreimann … the left pane click on your C:\ drive. Find the boot.ini file. Open it in Notepad and delete the line for… that you do not want to show up when you boot. Save the file. When you reboot your PC it will… boot.ini 19 Years Ago by md_salman I was using both window 98 and xp on my pc, Now I want that when the system starts, it should not display the option for choosing the operating system, it should simply start xp. Please tell me how to address this issue, if this is through boot.ini how can I do this. Re: boot.ini 19 Years Ago by uttoransen … me how to address this issue, if this is through boot.ini how can I do this.[/QUOTE] simply, in windows xp… Re: boot.ini keeps messing up 20 Years Ago by DMR … correct the entries. You don't need an entry in boot.ini for the second drive unless it has an operating system… drive (drive "0"), a stock boot.ini like this should work: [CODE] [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0… boot.ini keeps messing up 20 Years Ago by dvr … I formatted it now it trys to boot to that drive. I found a boot.ini file, it shows both drives in there… it created another option windows 2000 (default). it trys to boot to that now grrrr. can I just delete the boot.ini file? Boot.ini and jumper question 16 Years Ago by ArtChess … start>Run>msconfig and choose the Boot.ini tab and choose SAFE boot - the computer totally hangs and never makes it… jumpers be set on the HD and how should the boot.ini read? Re: boot.ini keeps messing up 20 Years Ago by DMR [QUOTE=dlh6213]If it's been formatted it doesn't matter.[/QUOTE] Right- and because it has no operating system on it now, it needs no entry in boot.ini. Re: BOOT.INI /safeboot is 'ON' cannot get to safe mode. how to reset? 20 Years Ago by DMR … the "Normal Startup" option is checked; in the Boot.ini tab, make sure the "Safeboot" option is unchecked…. Another method would be to open boot.ini in Notepad and manually edit out the /safeboot option. Boot.ini repair 17 Years Ago by Agita Can you repair the boot files on a HDD pulled from a PC? (XP) ie. boot.ini hal.dll boot.ini in the msconfig ...need help 14 Years Ago by jemz hello, can you help me or advise me if i am doing the right thing...i edited the boot.ini in msconfig,in order to boot faster that's what i know.. i change the timeout=30 to timeout=0 am i doing safe?please help me hoping for your positive responds...thank you in advance Re: boot.ini in the msconfig ...need help 14 Years Ago by gerbil …=;][/QUOTE] Jemz, if you only have one OS in the boot.ini file, ie no choice, then it makes no difference at… Re: boot.ini in the msconfig ...need help 14 Years Ago by jemz …;1246277]Jemz, if you only have one OS in the boot.ini file, ie no choice, then it makes no difference at… BOOT.INI /safeboot is 'ON' cannot get to safe mode. how to reset? 20 Years Ago by Darkaz Problems resetting the /safeboot option in the BOOT.INI when the computer decided to never go into safe mode. I have tried reinstalling windows but no luck. Any other ideas on how I might be able to reset that option to off? PLS HELP!!!! Re: BOOT.INI /safeboot is 'ON' cannot get to safe mode. how to reset? 20 Years Ago by dlh6213 [QUOTE=Darkaz]Problems resetting the /safeboot option in the BOOT.INI when the computer decided to never go into safe mode. … Re: BOOT.INI /safeboot is 'ON' cannot get to safe mode. how to reset? 20 Years Ago by Darkaz … I learned is to not use the /safeboot in the BOOT.INI unless you have already tried the other ways to get… BOOT.INI when i start my PC ??? 19 Years Ago by UNE … was working, power goes off and my PC restarts and BOOT.INI thingy came up... i do have any idea how to… Re: i can't change my boot.ini 20 Years Ago by alc6379 boot.ini is generally located in C:\ A lot of times, it's set read-only, so you'll also have to remove that attribute from the file in order to edit it and save changes. Re: my pc cannot locate the boot.ini file? 18 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon boot.ini file is normally in the c:\ root directory. In Explorer turn on the option to see hidden and system files if you need to, then check the root directory to see if it is there. If it is, send it to Notepad and paste the contents to your respose in this thread so we can see it. Make sure you do NOT change the contents of that file! booting problem and boot.ini 14 Years Ago by david888m … Recovery Console. I deleted boot.ini, confirmed the file was gone by "type boot.ini", and fixed the boot sector by "bootcfg… up. However, my new boot.ini isn't a completely new boot.ini. Instead, it is simply the old boot.ini with a new line with… Modify Boot.ini 21 Years Ago by Dani …] [font=Arial][size=2]Windows XP uses the Boot.ini file to determine the operating system options to display …during the startup (boot) process. Boot.ini is set with the hidden and system file attributes…as read-only by default. Have you been changing Boot.ini lately? Are you tired of opening Folder Options, … Changing Preferred Operating System in Boot.ini 17 Years Ago by DarkMaster21 … as simple as deleting the Windows Vista line from my boot.ini file. But here is where my problem is...my…, and thats it, no Vista... Here is my boot.ini file: [QUOTE]; ;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems… cannot fix it by deleting the Vista line from my boot.ini, but yet it is still there when I start the…