ger wrote:
> Another gotcha watch where your boot.ini file is pointing for the
> windows directory.
> For you installation
> Unfortunately you cannot edit this from recovery console (great tool).
> Parallel install Windows and then edit the file.
That last line just made me laugh and laugh and laugh! Isn't the
windows world great! Can't edit boot.ini from the recovery console!
Install another copy of Windows to edit a file!
An alternative approach would be to boot Knoppix/Kanotix (I'm sure there
are plenty more choices including the Linux you can already boot) and
use captive-ntfs to edit boot.ini. As slow as captive-ntfs is, and
even if you have to download XP SP1 to get the files you need, it should
still be quicker then doing a parallel Windows install (ok, bandwidth
depending). Why did captive-ntfs have to break with SP2 (as it seems
it has).
If all you have to do is replace one (or a few) chars in the file
(without changing the size of the file) which I suspect would be the
case here, then Linux native ntfs driver should even be able to do it.
Niall
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