Where can I find the Boot.ini file?

Can some one tell me where to find the boot.ini on my daughter's dual boot system? I can find it on my own but not on hers. I want to change the time delay to 5sec but all I find through a search is "boot.ini.bckup ".

 

You can also use msconfig "boot.ini Tab" to set the Timeout.

Taskbar>startbutton>run line type "msconfig" and click on the "boot.ini" tab . Type the time you wish in the Timeout Field ".

Acceptable settings= anything from 3 to 99 sec.

 

I checked her "F" drive (Win98se is on "C') with a search of files and folders after making hidden folders and hidden system files available to no avail.
As far as MSCONFIG goes, I tried that and it only works for selective boot and not normal boot. Also some buttons including set as default are greyed out.
Have I got a wierd install or what?The only differences in O/S between hers and mine are she has Home Edition, NTFS and dual boot while I have Pro,Fat32 and single boot. I can find my boot.ini on "C ". This shouldn't be this hard. And MSCONFIG can find it on hers! I must be missing some step to showing all files

 

If this is a normally configured dual boot system, the 'boot.ini' file should be on the C: drive. In XP you can access the boot.ini file by... right clicking MyComputer, go to Properties, click the Advanced tab, click Settings under StartUp and Recovery, then if you click Edit the boot.ini file will open. HTH

B

 

Thanks Mr. B. When I installed XP onto her computer she aready had Win 98se on "C Drive ". So as far as I can figure that is why XP is on "F Drive ". I just went along with what Win Setup did. Is this not normal? I thought about changing drive letters but wasn't sure how it would affect bootup. Personally I would always get confused if "C" wasn't the root drive.

 

By the way Mr.B. ... that worked! But why could I not see it on the root drive? Thanks

Mike

 

McBlazer,
'Normally' the older operating system gets installed first, so 98 would be on the C: drive and XP would be on a subsequent drive. I'm guessing XP ended up on F: because D: and E: were probably Cd Roms. That's not a problem, but you don't want to just change the drive letter for XP. What I did was change the drive letters for my cdrom and dvd burner before installing the second OS. I always change them to X: and Y:, that way they never get in the way . Glad you got it straightened out.

B

ps I believe the boot.ini file is 'hidden' so you would have to 'unhide' it.

 

goddez1 wrote:

• "Acceptable settings= anything from 3 to 99 sec. "

Actually, it's 3 to 999 seconds, although I don't understand why anyone would want a timeout of 16 minutes 39 seconds.

 

Just trying to delay dealing with the next set of problems maybe?

 

Fun thing was that I had every show file option checked in veiw and still couldn't find it on her computer save the method you showed me Mr.B! It's interesting, isn't it? Maybe there is a special place where boot.ini files go when they don't want to be found?! Doodoo Doo doo... We are entering the TWILIGHT ZONE! And maybe the reason for a 999sec delay is that some people can't make up their minds which OS they want to take them to that TWILIGHT ZONE. Anyone else want my thoughts on anything?