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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by BruceS[/i] [br]As I recall, these are the basic steps. Steps 8 and 9 are really more detailed than shown. 1. BIOS settings indicate boot drive 2. MBR code in boot drive is run 3. Partition table in MBR indicates Primary Active Partition 4. Boot sector code in Primary Active Partion is run (So far the steps are just like XP) 5. Bootmgr in the System Partition (usually 100 MB partition)is run 6. Bootmgr reads BCD (also on System partiton) for boot info - like old Boot.ini 7. Winload.exe then runs from Boot Partition ( in \Windows\System32) 8. Winload begins Kernel loading process including drivers & kernel 9. Winlogon (I think) provides logon screen -Bruce [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Note: please do not cross-post. Cross-postings will be deleted and ignored. Thanks for helping to keep this forum junk-free! Check here to subscribe to this topic.