Topic: Help needed removing options to boot other OS's a start up.

[Tony]

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 

[Simon]

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

[Tony]

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  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

[Tony]

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

Microsoft support

[Simon]

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

[Tony]

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

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


 

[davy51]

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

[Tony]

cheers davy51

[mistybear]

but with Clive, our resident tech whiz kid,