"can't find file..."

it can't find the file boot.ini why?

thanks in advance. i look forward to hearing from you

I have a 1TB disk with a number of almost identical XP Pro SP3 installations (they vary only in that each one is setup for a different model of gfx card, ie. for benchmarking, etc.), the first on a 75GB primary partition, the rest on 40GB logical partitions.

Adding new logical partitions, cloning with XXClone and growing boot.ini worked perfectly ok up until I added an 11th entry. After restarting, the original 10th entry in the Windows boot loader was gone, replaced by the new 11th entry, even though the boot.ini does contain both. Strangely, the new entry was inserted into boot.ini inbetween entries 9 and 10. It's as if the 11th entry is invisible.

What is happening? Is 10 the max number of entries the Windows boot loader can handle or display?
I've googled extensively but not found an answer so far.

I did try using Easy BCD instead, but although it let me build the boot list ok, it seems unable to replace
the Windows boot loader in the MBR, ie. writing the new MBR from within Easy BCD has no effect.

Ian.

I am doing a project in which unless and until you don't plug in a USB device(containing a verification code) or you can say a Dongle. The Windows doesn't boot. I have searched various ways in which to divert the booting process through the USB port but couldn't find any proper way to do it. I have read your above article of yours. It's really nice. Thank you for the information.

I have read your options of editing the Boot.ini file but are there any more options in which i can customize the boot process through the USB device in which it checks the VERIFICATION CODE and only then after verifying the CODE boots the Windows OS.

Thanks for your Information.

Waiting for your valuable reply.

My window boot manager After playing off with some features related to startup options and restarted my PC " IBM laptop T41 " It shows ,after loading some related features, can't find and some numbers showing up , really I don't understand it, { It seems to me that something like an engine is searching for and can't find to load up.} and the PC restarted itself or doing back again to the window boot manager to choose between one of my O/S .

before I was playing with some those related features, I turned off some windows Services that may be related to staring up with safe mode and etc...

I don't want to lose all my programs installed in my C: drive and a lots of things of documents etc... I thank you for your help time for finding the best way of keeping my Windows XP Pro SP2 back to normal. and that without installing a new O/S.

Very good page btw

Thanks

So please tell me how to change the option and where I have to change

I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 installed in Drive C:
and i want to have an option to boot in "MS DOS Prompt" from Boot Menu (by editing Boot.INI)
I have read that i have to install DOS first, then XP in order to do that.

But i can't do that, i have XP already installed, with lots of Customizations, and it will take me months to regenerate those.

So i was wondering, could you please tell me, how to add an entry to Boot.INI file and make settings, so that i can have an option of booting from MS DOS.

And Please reply me as sooner as possible, before i become hopeless for that.

Thanks

No idea zach sorry. You can always do this in linux.. and on a dual-boot you could load linux and run anti-virus on a mounted NTFS partition.

Many thanks!