ntdetect.com

Ntdetect.com is a part of the Windows NT -based operating systems, which is used at system startup for hardware detection.

Ntdetect.com boot.ini is loaded from the NT loader after the reading. She reads all the hardware of the system, such as processors, hard drives, input devices, et al, and passes this information to NTLDR on. If the system is also not ACPI compliant, the resources addresses of the devices are read and passed on to the system. If hardware profiles are set up, the additional information of the hardware profiling.

The information collected by ntdetect.com be written at a later stage of the boot process in the Windows register control in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ HARDWARE \ DESCRIPTION.

If ntdetect.com fails for an unknown reason and the system therefore can not be started, Microsoft offers a free debug version that outputs detailed information about the hardware detection.

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