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From: Nathaniel L. Walker
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 11:33

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Search helps.

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You're welcome.

Nate.


"Mike Collins" <its@TheBottomOfThePost.com> wrote in message 
news:44606967@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi all, just a quickie, ive search MSDN and MS newsgroups to no avail so I 
> thought I'd ask the real experts :)
>
> I need to load and read some information from boot.ini but I'm faced with 
> the problem of locating it.  I can't seem to find any information on if it 
> is always stored on c:\... or if it can reside on other drive letters. 
> Also, I can't find if it's possible to have multiple boot.ini files 
> residing on a machine.  Finally does anyone know if there is a particular 
> reg key or apis that specifics / returns the current boot.ini location for 
> the active windows version?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Mike C
>

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