Date:  Tue, 18 May 2004 16:38:25 -0300
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Detect and repair Windows BOOT.INI problems using DFSee 6.06


From: "Jan van Wijk" <jvwDESPAM at dfsee.com> 

One new feature was not really highlighted in the DFSee version 6.06
announcement that went out a few days ago:

	FIX  Windows  BOOT.INI  file  on FAT/FAT32 or NTFS

This may fix many unable to boot problems with Windows, that sometimes
gets very confused when installing other operating systems alongside like
OS/2 with BM or Linux :-)

There is now a DFSee command (and menu-item) that will:

   - Find the (first) BOOT.INI file in the selected partition
   - Display the default boot-line with partition-index
   - Display the CORRECT partition-index according to DFSee

  and (optionally):

   - UPDATE the BOOT.INI file in-place to use the calculated
partition-index
     or any other value you think may fix the problem :-)


A typical run on an NTFS partition without update would look like:

 ++++++++++ DFSee BOOTINI output sample

 Default boot entry line in boot.ini is:             
                                                    
 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS 
                                                    
 The partition-number in the default line is : 2     
 The partition-number calculated by DFSee is : 2     

 ++++++++++ So no problems here :-)


I think this is a very usefull feature, certainly on NTFS filesystems that
are hard to update once Windows does not boot anymore!

Regards, JvW


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DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk;  Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM at dfsee.com



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