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Windows XP (Oct 2001) / BOOT.INI and ARC Path Naming Conventions
« Last post by chrisNova777 on January 28, 2024, 07:20:53 AM »https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/102/Q102873/
guide to understanding the pathing convention for windows boot loaders
https://neosmart.net/wiki/rebuilding-boot-ini-file/
guide to understanding the pathing convention for windows boot loaders
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multi(X)disk(Y)rdisk(Z)partition(W) <--- looks like this
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- X is the ordinal number of the adapter and should always be 0 (see the text
below for the reason).
- Y is always 0 (zero) if the ARC path starts with MULTI(), because MULTI()
invokes the INT 13 call as described above and therefore does not need the
DISK() parameter information.
- Z is the ordinal for the disk on the adapter and is usually a number between
0 and 3.
- W is the partition number. All partitions receive a number except for type 5
(MS-DOS Extended) and type 0 (unused) partitions, with primary partitions
being numbered first and then logical drives.
NOTE: The first valid number for W is 1, as opposed to X, Y, and Z which start at 0 (zero).
https://neosmart.net/wiki/rebuilding-boot-ini-file/