{"id":498,"date":"2011-04-18T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-edit-boot-ini-and-other-small-text-files-with-bootit-bm\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:58:59","slug":"how-to-edit-boot-ini-and-other-small-text-files-with-bootit-bm","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-edit-boot-ini-and-other-small-text-files-with-bootit-bm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Edit BOOT.INI (and Other Small Text Files) with BootIt BM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BootIt&nbsp;BM&nbsp;allows you to edit text files of up to&nbsp;64 KB in size, without leaving BootIt BM. This functionality is available on partitions using supported file systems (including FAT, FAT32,&nbsp;NTFS, and ext). To use this feature:<\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>On the BootIt BM desktop, click the <strong>Partition Work<\/strong> icon. The <strong>Work with Partitions<\/strong> window appears.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Use the <strong>Drives<\/strong> drop-down box to select the appropriate hard drive.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Select the partition that contains the&nbsp;text file you would like to edit and then click the <strong>Edit File<\/strong> button. The <strong>Open <\/strong>dialog appears. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Select the desired text file,&nbsp;either by manually entering the desired path and\/or file name (using the MS-DOS 8.3 file naming convention) or by double-clicking the appropriate folder and\/or file names. The <strong>Edit File <\/strong>window appears.<br \/><br \/><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you see the message <strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">File Truncated!<\/font><\/strong> upon trying to open a file, it means that the selected file was either in binary format or over&nbsp;64 KB in size. In this case, your only option is to click <strong>Cancel<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>View or edit the file as desired. Click <strong>OK<\/strong>&nbsp;to save your changes or click <strong>Cancel <\/strong>to abandon them. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BootIt&nbsp;BM&nbsp;allows you to edit text files of up to&nbsp;64 KB in size, without leaving BootIt BM. This functionality is available on partitions using supported file systems (including FAT, FAT32,&nbsp;NTFS, and ext). To use this feature: On the BootIt BM desktop, click the Partition Work icon. The Work with Partitions window appears. Use the Drives drop-down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1824],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119],"class_list":["post-498","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-general-information-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6221,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/498\/revisions\/6221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}