According to the document at
http://warp.senecac.on.ca/peter/ios1...week7_boot.ppt,
and the first part of the Microsoft document
http://technet2.microsoft.com/window....mspx?mfr=true,
the file ntfs.sys seems to be the first real file read, and it seems
to be read before the operating system.
Now my doubts are:
- how can the system read c:\windows\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys from
the NTFS drive before itself is loaded?
- can't I just move it to c:\ to solve my problem of having c:\windows
as directory junction?
"When the Power is turned on:
The BIOS, which is a chip on the motherboard is in control of the PC.
The first instruction to the processor is a "wake up" call to resume
full power.
Then the BIOS performs a POST test to check hardware and memory
If OK you hear a "short beep" which means the POST was successful
Then the BIOS transfers control to the MBR which scans the partition
table looking for the system partition
The system partition is the "active partition" and when a partition is
active, a "flag" in the boot sector is turned on, which points to the
operating system boot files on the system partition (the boot files
are always located at Sector 0 of the partition)
After the Ntldr loads, which is the flash screen with the progress bar
at the bottom, the OS begins to load the NTFS.sys file system.
Boot.ini is the second file, but the OS would NOT be able to load the
boot.ini into memory from the disk drive, (it's a text file) if part
of the NTFS.sys which is the driver for the NTFS file system had not
been loaded first.
After the NTFS.SYS file system has finished loading, the operating
system transitions the microprocessor from Real Mode to Protected
Mode, and loads the NToskrnl.exe file, which in turn loads the
remaining parts of Windows."
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