From: guiomar on
repacing my old internal hard drive 20GB with a new 356 GB internal hard drive

"Timothy Daniels" wrote:

> Try this: rt-clk the boot.ini file icon, select Properties, in the
> General tab next to Attributes uncheck Read-only.
> For some reason, the Attributes checkbox for my boot.ini file
> is also checked as Read-only, but I can edit my boot.ini file.
> Perhaps it's because I use the administrator account.
>
> Otherwise, you can rt-clk My Computer, select Properties,
> clk Advanced tab, in the Startup and Recovery panel clk
> Settings, in the System Startup panel clk Edit, and that will
> allow you to edit the boot.ini file using Notepad.
>
> *TimDaniels*
>
>
> "sggack" wrote:
> > i am trying to change the boot.ini file in g drive.
> > i opened the file in notepad. changed it as you said from
> > partition(2) to partition(1),
> > added the timeout(0).
> > when I tried to save it, a save as box came up
> > boot.ini
> > this file exists with read only attributes.
> > please use a different name.
> >
> > when i press ok, come up with the box with the folders in that drive.
> >
> > what am i missing at doing?
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
> >
> >> "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
> >> > Just change "partition(2)" in boot.ini to "partition(1)" in the G:
> >> > partition's boot.ini file using Notepad.
> >>
> >> Do this in both places in the boot.ini file and add the "timeout"
> >> so it looks like this:
> >>
> >> [boot loader]
> >> timeout=0
> >> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> >> [operating systems]
> >> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
> >> Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
> >>
> >>
> >> *TimDaniels*
> >>
>