I don't have one. It doesn't exist.
How does my computer still boot? Upon startup, it says it's booting from C:\windos. I don't have a C: drive.
Are you sure it isnt hidden? This is a system protected file and is still hidden when you show hidden files.
If you dont have a C:\ drive then it will boot off the first drive first partition.
Um, surely you have a c: drive? and you must have a boot.ini ...
Twohow can you not have a boot.ini? are you seriously telling me that when you
win-key+break
advanced
startup & recovery settings
edit
There is nothing there?
Yes.If so then are you running windows?
Please READ the 2nd part of my post.Yeah, I'm sure. See the screenies. Now, how can it boot off the partition without a boot.ini?
that's pretty darn impressive
I did a similar thing myself once before, if I remember rightly I had installed windows on my SCSI drive thinking windows would make it C: but it turns out windows doesn't like booting off of SCSI so it made the system drive D: and put my boot files on C: (a sata drive) -- not realising this I later formatted the sata drive - I managed to get it bootable again but it was fairly messed up
Please READ the 2nd part of my post.
Go to:
Start, Run, typ in:
c:\boot.ini
or
d:\boot.ini
Post the informaton here like below when the boot.ini in notepad appears
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect