The Boot Manager in both Windows XP and 2000 stored its configuration
in a tiny, easily editable file called boot.ini in the root folder of your C: drive,
but in Windows Vista, this file is no longer used. If you install Vista on an XP
system, and then open the boot.ini file left behind, you??™ll see this message:
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
The BCDEdit (bcdedit.exe) tool that comes with Vista is a command-line
tool, and isn??™t exactly user-friendly. Open a Command Prompt window (in
administrator mode, as described in Chapter 8), type bcdedit and press
Enter, and you??™ll see output that looks something like this:
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
displayorder {ntldr}
{default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 3
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Windows Legacy OS Loader
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identifier {ntldr}
device partition=C:
path \ntldr
description Earlier version of Windows
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {70c7d34d-b6b4-12db-cc71-d30cdb1ce261}
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