I'm trying to programmatically find the version of Windows operating system that has it's primary partition mounted within my Linux box. Does anyone know how this can be reliably done?
I was considering reading one of the registry hives, but I don't know how reliable that would be across versions, and I don't know if that would be easy to find out without actually having each version with me. Not to mention, I don't know where I would find it, and hives can get corrupted.
Right now, I'm liking the idea of reading the boot.ini file. The W2K box I'm on now has
and the XP box I used to have looked identical, except for the OS name string. If you're running Vista or 7, it would be great if you could post your boot.ini file for me. I know the string could be changed (I've done it before) without messing anything up, so this could not work, but I'm guessing that 99.99% of people don't.Code:[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Thanks