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Windows® 7 Resource Kit
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Windows® 7 Resource Kit

by Tony Northrup Mitch Tulloch and Jerry Honeycutt
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
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Important Startup Files

For Windows to start, the system and boot partitions must contain the files listed in Table 29-4.

Table 29-4. Windows Startup Files

FILE NAME

DISK LOCATION

DESCRIPTION

BootMgr

Root of the system partition

The Windows Boot Manager.

WinLoad

%SystemRoot%\System32

The Windows Boot Loader.

BCD

\Boot

A file that specifies the paths to operating system installations and other information required for Windows to start.

Ntoskrnl.exe

%SystemRoot%\System32

The core (also called the kernel) of the Windows operating system. Code that runs as part of the kernel does so in privileged processor mode and has direct access to system data and hardware.

Hal.dll

%SystemRoot%\System32

The HAL dynamic-link library (DLL) file. The HAL abstracts low-level ...

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