From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:40d28dd2.2741872{at}216.144.1.254...

> I think I've done that (well, a rename actually). I was testing whether
> W2003 acts the same as NT4 and W2000 if boot.ini is missing. I found that
> all three systems (plus, I think, XP Pro) will attempt a boot from the
> default location if boot.ini is unreadable. That is, c:\winnt for W2000
> and c:\windows for later.

You are probably right but since I never use the default path it never
recovers for me and if you do a manual recovery it can't find itself and
doesn't give you the opportunity to tell it where it is..

Geo.

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