Part of the reason I always suggest delete, restart, create the partition
when clean installing the OS.
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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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| The link you mention includes this sentence:
|
| "Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51.
We
| are researching this problem and will post new information here in the
| Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available."
|
| Now WinNT 3.51 was a loooooooooong time ago. The article
| itself was last reviewed on 7 May 2003. I suspect that someone
| at Microsoft is dragging his/her feet.
|
| I suspect that the cause is nowhere near as exotic as some
| respondents in this thread have suggested, e.g. that boot.ini
| "dwells in the MFT" etc. etc. A more likely explanation is
| that the installation process reads boot.ini at the start of the
| installation process, keeps the contents in memory, then
| replicates some of the original lines when the new boot.ini
| is generated. This would line up with the fact that none of
| the Win2000 boot files (c:\ntldr, c:\ntdetect.com, c:\boot.ini)
| need to be located in a specific sector of the disk (like some
| DOS boot files). They can occupy any physical location,
| and can deleted/copied/replicated freely, as long as their
| logical location is the root directory of the active partition.
|
|
| | > In deference to the 'ol' MVPs I didn't want to say anything. Now after
| > confirmation that the "phenomenon" does occurs I thought I should post
| this:
| >
| > BOOT.INI Not Cleaned Up After Repartitioning
| >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=141188
| >
| > It seems this is one of these quirks with NT Operating Systems under
| > specific conditions.
| >
| > John
| >
| > Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
| >
| > > I was ready to relegate this phenomenon to the realm of
| > > urban myths but decided to give it the benefit of the doubt
| > > until I had run a rigorous test myself. Much to my surprise
| > > I found that it was correct: The file c:\boot.ini does indeed
| > > survive the format process during the Win2000 installation.
| > >
| > > Strange . . .