I've searched the forum and read the FAQs but still h ave a few unanswered questions...
I bought a new HD, used Partition Magic to partition it, installed W2K and then installed WinME.
Since I installed in this order I could not utilyze microsofts boot manager and resorted to XOSL (which is working fine by the way).
I now want to try and use the microsoft boot manager and was wondering if I could just hack the boot.ini file. When searching for the boot.ini file I found only one copy of this in the Partition Magic directory...not in the root?? Is the boot.ini being referenced at all during boot up?
If I backed up both partitions, reinstalled the OSs or used the "setup /ntldr" option....this should re-write the MBR correct? Then couldn't I restore the partions and be done with it?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Mark
I bought a new HD, used Partition Magic to partition it, installed W2K and then installed WinME.
Since I installed in this order I could not utilyze microsofts boot manager and resorted to XOSL (which is working fine by the way).
I now want to try and use the microsoft boot manager and was wondering if I could just hack the boot.ini file. When searching for the boot.ini file I found only one copy of this in the Partition Magic directory...not in the root?? Is the boot.ini being referenced at all during boot up?
If I backed up both partitions, reinstalled the OSs or used the "setup /ntldr" option....this should re-write the MBR correct? Then couldn't I restore the partions and be done with it?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Mark
