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Is there a boot.ini file in ME?

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by charlesvar, 2003/12/08.

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  1. 2003/12/08
    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni Thread Starter

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    The question of whether ME uses a boot.ini file came up in the XP board in connection with dual booting 98/ME with XP.

    The question is does ME use a boot.ini by itself as a stand alone OS?

    Regards - Charles
     
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    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    Hi Charles!

    My WinME computer is not in working order right now (an old OmniBook) but I seem to remember that WinME has a boot.ini file. The old DOS/Windows files autoexec.bat and config.sys are there but only as "place holders" since some programs expect them to be there but the OS itself doesn´t use them. I also seem to remember a system.ini file in the windows folder.

    Hope I´m not wrong on this but if I am, someone else will tell me/us!

    Christer
     
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    iceolated

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    Someone correct me if I am wrong here.

    I think that boot.ini is only present when an NT based OS is on a system. NT/2000/XP use the Boot.ini file to determine the os options to display at startup. I believe that it is part of their 'off the shelf' multi-boot support.

    I haven't used ME for any length of time so I could be way out in right field here....but I think that with ME it would be difficult to multi-boot a system without the use of a third part boot manager. So I wouldn't expect to find boot.ini on a standalone ME system.

    Cheers,

    ICE
     
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