I want to remove the boot.ini file.

Has anyone ever come across a hacked ntldr that does not need a boot.ini file? I know if you remove boot.ini then ntldr will just default to booting C:\Windows\, but this only works for primary partitions on the boot hard drive. It's like it checks for the active partition on the boot drive and then goes for that one. (EDIT: Just been trying that again and it’s not the active partition is goes for but the the first Windows folder it finds from the start of the boot drive – even if that partition is hidden).

I want ntldr just to go straight to C:\Windows\ on the partition it finds itself on - whether that is a logical partition or another hard drive. Basically I want to remove the step of having to alter the boot.ini after cloning.

Hacking ntldr myself would be beyond me I'm sure, but does anyone know if such a thing would be possible?

Thanks folks.

Edited December 13, 200619 yr by McTavish