Von_Beard Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 has xp got a boot log and if so any one know were it is ? :( help pleasssse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mldkfa Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 It only has a bootlog when you turn it on. Press f8 before windows trys to boot (just press f8 after post screen a bunch). after you turn it on the bootlog.txt will be found on the c:\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chmsant Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 While starting up hit F8 and choose logging mode EDIT: bah ^ beat me to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Von_Beard Posted December 16, 2005 Author Share Posted December 16, 2005 could i use that bootlog to find out were my start up was falling down and reseting if i hooked my HDD to diffrent machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted December 16, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 16, 2005 could i use that bootlog to find out were my start up was falling down and reseting if i hooked my HDD to diffrent machine? No, because that machine would have different hardware (or at least a different hardware configuration) and Windows wouldn't boot on that machine because it wasn't installed for that machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRosenfeld Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 I think what Von_Beard means is to generate the bootlog file on the original machine, then hook up the hard drive to another one (with its own OS on its own hard drive) to look at the bootlog file generated. However, I don't know whether the bootlog file would get saved if bootup fails to complete (if indeed that is what is happening). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted December 17, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 17, 2005 Of course it would be saved if the boot fails - that's the whole purpose! It's appended and saved every time the OS does something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnalogRival Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Quick thing to mention, afaik it doesn't create a bootlog.txt file in the root folder like win9x, it's actually ntbtlog.txt in your windows folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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