Anyone know how to get rid of the dual boot OS loader screen at startup?

[RambleOn]

I was dualbooting 98 and 2k on two hard drives, I messed up 2k when I was tinkering with it, so I decided to format the secondary drive 2k resided on (D I went to install it again, realized now there are 2 choices for Windows 2000 and one for Windows 98 in the boot menu, even though I don't have 2k loaded at all. How can I get rid of that menu so that I start fresh? Thanks!

 

[dcdomain]

I forget where exactly, (not at my comp) but go to the place where they have START UP and RECOVERY. I think it's under the control panel, under system... not sure though.

You can edit your Boot.ini from there, or set the time to zero.

 

[Adul]

go to system properties

go to the advanced tab

go to start up and recovery

uncheck time to display list of operating systems



BTW this is in the FAQ.

 

[Bovinicus]

He doesn't have Win2k anymore you guys... You are telling him how he would do it if he removed 98 and kept 2k. It is the other way around. I can't help you, but I don't think either of those resolutions will help you. Just wanted to clarify.

 

[RambleOn]

Good thing I backed up boot.ini. I edited it to get rid of the Win2000 Professional references and my system wouldn't boot afterwords. The problem is that I had Win2k on a second HD, I hosed the OS while messing around with it, no big deal so I formatted, afterwords I ran the Win2k setup disc and it tried to load over my existing Win98se setup on my primary drive which I aborted because that isn't what I wanted to do. Now I have all these damn menu's popping up at bootup asking if I want to continue with Win2k setup or not. When I click no it reboots. The only way I can boot now is to hit F8 and it gives a bunch of choices and I pick the Win98 choice. I'd like to just get all the Win2k installation files and other crap off my primary C: drive and start fresh and reload Win2k from scratch.

 

[andrey]

In Windows 98 make a startup disk (Control Panel >> Add/Remove Programs >> Startup Disk) and boot from that disk.

Once at A:\>_ prompt, type:

fdisk /mbr <enter>
sys c: <enter>

Take a floppy disk out and reboot. That's it

 

[RambleOn]

<< In Windows 98 make a startup disk (Control Panel >> Add/Remove Programs >> Startup Disk) and boot from that disk.

Once at A:\>_ prompt, type:

fdisk /mbr <enter>
sys c: <enter>

Take a floppy disk out and reboot. That's it >>




Thing is I'm trying to load 2k onto my second HD which is the d drive. Plus I don't have a damn floppy drive! I really need to get a floppy, my old one conked out, and there's been plenty of occasions where I needed it. I wonder if I can make a bootable CDR?