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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: Tony on October 13, 2008, 20:49

Title: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: Tony on October 13, 2008, 20:49

right, I have a hard drive with W2K on it that in another life, at boot up gave the option of loading anyone of two W2K Primary partitions, or to carry on with a  failed W2K set up. Meaning, if I put it in a PC [I'm knocking up, out of bits]you have catch it at that loading page to highlight the one and only OS, otherwise it goes to the Windows set up page.

Now I know it's an easy problem to sort once I'm at the right file. But I need step by step instructions on how to arrive [on a W2K machine]at that file. I'm buggered if I know how to get there  ???

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: Simon on October 13, 2008, 20:55

Would it be something like Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced (tab) > Startup and Recovery?

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: Tony on October 13, 2008, 21:03

That's the easy solution, unless you pick the wrong one of the two OS's options given that they were both W2K. And if you do that it wont load at all, I know I already done it  :blush: No I want to actually remove the options from the Boot.ini file, I think its that one Simon.

But thanks all the same Bro

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: Tony on October 13, 2008, 22:00

found it....you go through notepad to get to it

Microsoft support (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311578)

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: Simon on October 13, 2008, 22:42

:welldone:  Sorry we didn't get there first, but with Clive, our resident tech whiz kid, away on another bloody cruise, we're struggling! :)x

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: Tony on October 14, 2008, 00:04

Quote from: Simon on October 13, 2008, 22:42

:welldone:  Sorry we didn't get there first, but with Clive, our resident tech whiz kid, away on another bloody cruise, we're struggling! :)x

No sweat Bro, I just get to lazy to find it out myself sometimes.


 ;D

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: davy51 on October 14, 2008, 13:53

This step will work perfectly

IF you know which you want to use
I have used this on dual booting OS's

As long as you are carefull you can return to the original


http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsf/p/fixmbr.htm

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: Tony on October 14, 2008, 20:52

cheers davy51

Title: Re: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.
Post by: mistybear on October 15, 2008, 03:26

Quote from: Simon on October 13, 2008, 22:42

but with Clive, our resident tech whiz kid,

 :rofl:    :scoot: