Need description of boot routine for XP?

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Anyone know where there is a description of how an Intel arch machine boots
up into Windows XP Pro? It should include things like hardware sequence and
which files and in which order they are accessed for a standard install on a
computer with one bootable hard drive with one partition. Other questions I
would like to know are when is the registry processed, when are the services
started and when is the boot.ini processed in the sequence?

thanks all,
charles.....
 
Hi Charles,

There is a ton of information available, just start at google.com and search
on Windows XP boot sequence. Up until ntldr takes over, most hardware
bootstrap sequences are pretty much the same up through the master boot
program (which is what points to ntldr). First ntldr reads boot.ini to know
where to start, then it gets the hardware read from ntdetect.com. It loads
the appropriate hal and turns over the sequence to ntoskrnl.exe to load
Windows, which in turn loads other startup files (winlogon, lsass, etc.).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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