Re: Two W2000 Boots. How Get Rid of One?

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W. Watson wrote:

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

"W. Watson" <wolf_tracks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When W2000 comes up there are two identical choices for it. The boot is 


very

slow after the choice but finally succeeds. Is there some way of getting 


rid

of one of them or do I need to start over?

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Presumably one of your two installations is fine and the
other is slow. If both are slow then your best bet might
be to back up your data files, then do a fresh installation
onto a formatted disk.

Let's call the two Windows installations Good and Bad.
Here is the recipe to remove Bad:
1. Launch Bad.
2. Start a Command Prompt (Start / Run / cmd {OK}.
3. Type this command:
set systemroot
    Make a note of the folder name.
4. Launch Good.
5. Using Explorer, rename the folder you memorised in
    Step 3 to  c:\Windows.bad (for example).
6. Click start / run / notepad.exe c:\boot.ini {OK}
7. Remove the line that refers to the folder you memorised
    in Step 3, then save and close the file.
8. Wait a week.
9. If all is well, delete the folder you renamed in Step 5.


Good. Thanks. I'll try it out.
Well, a slight anomaly occured. After making the changes (C:/winnt to winnt.bad), and the ini file, my boot went to default (Win 2000). The other choice was Win2000 Professional. I just went for the default and got the msg: could not start or missing <win 2000 root? system32/ntoskrnl.exe. Re-install a copy. I then selected Win2000 Professional and got under way properly. I must need to adjust something, I would think.
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