Re: Should I have a boot.ini? How can I set SAFEBOOT without boot.

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From: "Steve N." <Steve_N@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:49:32 -0800

Cesare Brizio - Italy wrote:

Dear Friends: thank You for the help You are trying to give. My PC works perfectly fine without a boot.ini. Yes, I have absolutely no boot.ini on BOTH logical drives C and D. Yes, every time I boot the PC I get a message saying that no boot.ini was found, but the message lasts less than a second, then the PC boots perfectly, regularly. I am absolutely sure that no boot.ini is present on both my dirives. Please read my original post: it's not just me who can't find BOOT.INI, Windows XP itself cannot find a BOOT.INI, and apparently it works just fine.

No, I don't want to tamper with boot.ini. I just would like to set the /SAFEBOOT option, and I cannot, because no BOOT.INI folder exists in MSCONFIG.EXE.

And, NO, I haven't (consciously) installed any alternative boot manager. Maybe (but probably I'm wrong) the BIOS itself manages the boot ....?!?!
I have only XP Home on the disk.

Do this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330184

Why do you want/need the Safeboot anyway?

Steve N.

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