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Article #3770Re: locating boot.ini
From: Ed Mulroy
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 12:08
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 12:08
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There may not be such a file. For example, I have no boot.ini on my Windows XP machine. Might boot.ini be only for used the Windows 95/98/ME branch? To find a file on the disk use the FindFirstFile/FindNextFile/FindClose set of Windows functions. That set of functions works on a given directory so to search a while drive, start at the root and for every directory you find then search in it, and so on down the chain. You can get a list of the drives with either of the Windows functions GetLogicalDrives or GetLogicalDriveStrings. . Ed > Mike Collins 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?
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