🚀 go-pugleaf

You are correct.  It is hidden and system.  When I did a DIR /S with /as and 
with /ah it did not show.  After seeing your reply I did it without the /S 
and it shows.

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C:\
>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

C:\
>dir boot.ini
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is FC8D-A209

 Directory of C:\

File Not Found

C:\
>dir /ah boot.ini
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is FC8D-A209

 Directory of C:\

06/06/2005  05:27 PM               211 BOOT.INI
               1 File(s)            211 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  35,302,158,336 bytes free

C:\
>dir /as boot.ini
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is FC8D-A209

 Directory of C:\

06/06/2005  05:27 PM               211 BOOT.INI
               1 File(s)            211 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  35,302,158,336 bytes free

C:\
>type boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 
Professional"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect 
C:\ 
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> Alan Bellingham wrote in message
> news:m7516298em23gpnb2j9449af89a3csg9gq@4ax.com...
>
>>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?
>
> Have you checked in c:\? It's not immediately obvious:
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>  C:\>dir boot.ini
>   Volume in drive C is Win2K
>   Volume Serial Number is 84ED-4755
>
>   Directory of C:\
>
>  File Not Found
>
>  C:\>attrib boot.ini
>  A  SH      C:\boot.ini
>
>  C:\>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>>To find a file on the disk ...
>
> I don't think any recursive option is required - if it's not in the root
> directory, I don't expect ntldr (or is it ntdetect.com) to bother doing
> a full scan through all directories. It's reasonable for an OS loader
> to require vital files to be easily accessible.
>
> However, it might possibly be on a volume that's not actually visible
> to the OS, so I suspect it's not going to be an easy