How do I tell if Home or Pro is loaded?

[jamesbird]

Trying to recover data from a disk that is readable but wont boot, anyone know of how I can check if the system loaded is XP Pro or XP Home? I'm guessing there's a file/ folder difrence, but cant see what it might be, any ideas??
All the best
James

 

[TheLad]

If you can get to a point to be able to read the system hidden file C:\boot.ini, if it is the standard boot.ini file it should say in there.

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"Insert funny comment in here!"
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[GrimR]

so as TheLad says boot to 'dos' with the CD. Then
c:\attrib -r -s -h boot.ini
C:\type boot.ini
[AND THE FOLLOWING WILL APPEAR]
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Safe Mode" /safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog

 

[linney]

XP Pro should have a Group Policy folder in System32, XP Home will not have such a folder.