Long story short - I have a computer running Windows Server 2003 and because of problem with a RAID card I had to edit the boot.ini file to see if the issue it had booting up was due to the operating system trying to boot from the single system drive or the RAID array.

I know you can make some changes to the boot.ini file using msconfig but you can't just edit the raw file. Well this way you can.

• Click Start > Run and type sysdm.cpl and click OK.
• Select the Advanced tab and click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
• Under System Startup, click Edit.

This will open the boot.ini file in Notepad and you can type or delete at will!

Here is the Microsoft KB article with a sample of a default Windows 2003 boot.ini and a dual-boot boot.ini file:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323427

Here is the Microsoft KB article with the above instructions for editing your boot.ini file for Windows XP but it works exactly the same for Windows Server 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022

Lastly - here is a default Windows Server 2003 boot.ini file: