Boot.ini File

[toshiyori]

I edit my Boot.ini file it shows "default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)Windows. Why partition 2 ? this should be 1. When I refurbished the HDD I insured only one (1) partition & then installed XP home. This "2" has got me confused.

 

[Dngrsone]

If this drive came out of a commercially-built system, then there may be a hidden recovery partition.

Or perhaps the Windows installation created such, I have not worked with WIn 7 and don't know if they do that.

Or, it could be that the boot partition is partition (1) and therefore the Windows partition is partition (2).

 

[toshiyori]

Yes, this could be true. In the disk management, the top portition is "c" NTFS, below that is PQ Service FAT 32.
The PQ Service could be (1) & NTFS could be (2).