bmanice Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I have a pc with a hard drive with 2 partitions, C: which contains XP Pro D: Which Contains Vista I want to modify the Boot Menu so i can Have it say "Windows XP Pro SP2" "Windows Vista Business Edition" Instead of "Earlier Versions of Windows" "Windows Vista Business Edition" I thought that it would be as simple as modifying the Boot.ini file, but i cant find it... Does Vista use a different type of boot file? IIRC Boot.bak is in the C: dir and D: dir Is that the new "Boot.ini" or am i just missing something? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1u Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I have a pc with a hard drive with 2 partitions, C: which contains XP Pro D: Which Contains Vista I want to modify the Boot Menu so i can Have it say "Windows XP Pro SP2" "Windows Vista Business Edition" Instead of "Earlier Versions of Windows" "Windows Vista Business Edition" I thought that it would be as simple as modifying the Boot.ini file, but i cant find it... Does Vista use a different type of boot file? IIRC Boot.bak is in the C: dir and D: dir Is that the new "Boot.ini" or am i just missing something? thanks! It is in Boot.ini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I don't know if Vista still uses Boot.ini, but if it does it'll be hidden away... open a command prompt and go to the root of the drive you found boot.bak in and type: attrib boot.ini -r -s -h Then you should be able to open and edit it in notepad. Once it's edited, save it, then go back to the command prompt, change to the root of the drive you found boot.ini (or boot.bak, since boot.ini will probably be in the same place) in and type: attrib boot.ini +r +s +h Try rebooting, see if it worked, if not then it Vista probably doesn't use that method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmanice Posted September 5, 2007 Author Share Posted September 5, 2007 oh ok cool, ill check it out tomorrow, this is on a test dummy PC at school, and i dont have that class til tomo... for anyone thats interested ill post my results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1u Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 oh ok cool, ill check it out tomorrow, this is on a test dummy PC at school, and i dont have that class til tomo... for anyone thats interested ill post my results It will be pretty cool. If it works write a tutorial on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunderboy Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Vista doesn't use the boot.ini. You would have to mess with the Vista boot software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 In that case, try this apparently fairly complete guide: http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8373 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmanice Posted September 5, 2007 Author Share Posted September 5, 2007 In that case, try this apparently fairly complete guide: http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8373 wow, boot.ini will be missed! here's the tutorial for editing boot.ini double click, change the name, ctrl+s, exit, lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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