How come I can't see C:oot.ini file on my Windows XP? I have 'show
hidden files' check in the folder options? I would like to see what it
looks like?

On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 12:10 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mumia W. wrote:
>
> > Derek, IIRC the NT-loader is configured by (carefully) editing
> > C:oot.ini under Windows XP. I have no experience with Vista; it would
> > be nice if Vista provided a GUI tool for editing boot.ini, because one
> > wrong character in boot.ini can make the system unbootable.
>
> Right, I recall now actually editing boot.ini under XP, but you can't do
> that in Vista, and the tool they use is not available for Vista Home.
>
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2008/8/18 Linda Vest Castanos <dcastanos@snowcrest.net>:
> How come I can't see C:oot.ini file on my Windows XP? I have 'show
> hidden files' check in the folder options? I would like to see what it
> looks like?
>

Hey,

While not an Ubuntu question, the answer is simple enough:
Not only do you need show hidden files, but there's a separate
checkbox in the folder options for showing system files.

cheers,
Owen.

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c:oot.ini came up with the discussion of restoring grub. I'm curious
to see what it looks like.
Thank you
Ubuntu User - with the exception of my scanner and partitioning backup

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 13:26 +1000, Owen Townend wrote:
> 2008/8/18 Linda Vest Castanos <dcastanos@snowcrest.net>:
> > How come I can't see C:oot.ini file on my Windows XP? I have 'show
> > hidden files' check in the folder options? I would like to see what it
> > looks like?
> >
>
> Hey,
>
> While not an Ubuntu question, the answer is simple enough:
> Not only do you need show hidden files, but there's a separate
> checkbox in the folder options for showing system files.
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>


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2008/8/18 Linda Vest Castanos <dcastanos@snowcrest.net>:
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 13:26 +1000, Owen Townend wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> While not an Ubuntu question, the answer is simple enough:
>> Not only do you need show hidden files, but there's a separate
>> checkbox in the folder options for showing system files.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Owen.
>>
> c:oot.ini came up with the discussion of restoring grub. I'm curious
> to see what it looks like.
> Thank you
> Ubuntu User - with the exception of my scanner and partitioning backup
>

No worries, glad I could help.

Even without the option checked, you should still be able to open the
file in a program like notepad by simply typing "c:oot.ini" into the
open dialog instead of navigating to and clicking on the file.

The 'microsoft way' of editing the file is to go through:
Control Panel -> system -> advanced -> Startup and Recovery Settings
-> System Startup -> Edit
This will simply open c:oot.ini in notepad.

cheers,
Owen.

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