Re: Choice in POST

Yeah!!!!!!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!




"Dave Patrick" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The partition size was probably > 32 gB
>
> By default Windows 2000 installs in the \winnt directory. First Control
> Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, choose the correct System
> Startup option as default, then you'll need to delete the options you want
> removed from the boot.ini, it's a system, hidden file in the root of the
> system partition. So you'll need to show-all-files in Explorer.
> Explorer|Tools|Folder Options|View, then radio button for "Show hidden
files
> and folders" *and* also uncheck the box for "Hide protected operating
system
> files". You should end up with something like this (below). The timeout
> value is not functional when there is only one startup choice. Then you
can
> remove the %windir% directory that your currently not using from drive. By
> default Windows 2000 installs into the \winnt directory and this is the
> %windir% From a command prompt
> echo %windir%
> will reveal the one your using (possibly \winnt2), then you can delete the
> other one not in use. To be sure you can rename it, then later delete it.
>
> [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
>
> --
> Regards,
>
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> "dancer" wrote:
> | Hi,
> | I have a w2k system which I wanted to reinstall on a drive that needed
> | to have the OS reinstalled. But instead of wiping that hdd,
> | I had a same size harddrive which had held an xp os, so I put my w2k os
> | disk in it to wipe it. (That way I could have 2 hdd's in my puter and
> then
> | pick and choose what data to keep
> | from the old w2k hdd without the concern of loosing any data and move
> | the good data to newly installed hdd over a period of time.)
> |
> | The w2k os installed on the old xp hdd but I noticed one difference.
After
> | I deleted the partitions, I normally have the choice of installing FAT
or
> | NTFS
> | when I install w2k. This time, I only had the choice of NTFS.
> |
> | Now even though I deleted the old partitions and reformated, the POST
> comes
> | up and then offers me the choice of
> | which OS to go to (w2k or xp). If I choose the xp, there is nothing
there
> | and
> | it stops and says problem with proceeding. If I choose w2k, it opens
into
> | w2k normally.
> |
> | How do I remove that choice of xp in the POST??? I don't want to be
> | stopped
> | there with a choice every time. If I leave it alone, it does time out
to
> | the default
> | choice which is w2k, but that adds about 30 sec. to the POST time.
> |
> | HELP!!!
> |
> | Thanks,
> | jenny
> |
> |
>
>


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