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

• From: Bob I <birelan@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:00:47 -0600

nesredep egrob wrote:

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:29:45 GMT, "W. Watson"
<wolf_tracks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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?

        Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
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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.

Well I have not given up. This morning I set the computer to copy
files from USB to a folder on internal drive.

The time reported and the time taken do not quite compare. To start it
was reported that the copying would take 6 minutes for 3 +GB. I
thought a little optimistic but the progrees bar went along nicely at
a good speed. At the end of its journey the display changed to report
2309122 minutes left - quite a shock.
I deduced that it would be best to leave the latest images of the
first disk on the second disk and obviously visa versa.

That was wrong - I started again with Acronis Boot and it informed me
that it would delete the partition for C: and copy to that again. I
waited a few minutes or maybe 15 - I am patient, and at that rate soon
will be one.
The display has suddenly changed to say that it has 2 days to run and
that is just a 3.7GB image.

I am getting emotional - don't know wether to laugh or cry

Borge

PS I shall leave the computer on for 2 day to see what happens.

B. Pedersen Latitude -31,48.21 Longitude 115,47.40

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