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Originally Posted by The_Other_One
Are you sure you reformatted and not just install another copy of Windows on your HD?
I THINK you can just remove your BOOT.INI file(located on the root of C) However, I know you can just alter it as well. There should be guides around the internet on this.
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You never remove the boot loader! A simple edit to see something like this for XP Pro is all that is needed.
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) \WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT
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Originally Posted by joeswm8
sorry to but in, but what does the boot.ini file do?
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The boot.ini file is a the boot manager that gives instructions to the OS loader of what drive/directory to go to in order to see Windows startup. With Linux you would see a Grub or Lilo loader manually installed while Windows automatically installs one of it's own.