rivethead
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Happy New Year to all!
My mother-in-law "volunteered" me to upgrade/rebuild my sister-in-law's computer.
When I got the thing, it had both Windows ME AND Windows 2000 Professional operating systems loaded on it. When you booted, you got a Dos screen giving you the choice of which OS to choose. However, 2000 Professional was not working (and according to my sister-in-law, it never worked.....it was a failed attempt to upgrade from ME done by her mother who supposedly works in IT).
Well, needless to say, the hard drive was a mess. I decided to upgrade to XP Home because I had an unused Windows XP Home upgrade package.
So upgraded to XP Home, but the only way I could do that was to wipe the hard drive clean (not a problem and actually it was the right thing to do....she had a lot of junk on that hard drive).
XP Home works great but.......
Now when you boot I get the same Dos screen, but three choices of OS to boot: XP Home, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Pro. ME and 200 Pro are not on the HD so I don't quite understand why it's giving me this choice.
The HD has two partitions....one 20GB that contains XP and one 16mb.
This is outside of my area of expertise, but I'm guessing there is a .ini file on the 16mb partition and something called a boot loader which is what is giving me the prompt to choose and OS.
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of that prompt/prompt screen and just have Windows XP Home loaded?
I'm guessing I'll need to some how access and manipulate the .ini files and boot loader through the MS Dos prompt?
I'm unfamiliar with Dos commands, so I'm a little worried about messing with this stuff.
Any advice and/or links to other discussions that can help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!🙂
My mother-in-law "volunteered" me to upgrade/rebuild my sister-in-law's computer.
When I got the thing, it had both Windows ME AND Windows 2000 Professional operating systems loaded on it. When you booted, you got a Dos screen giving you the choice of which OS to choose. However, 2000 Professional was not working (and according to my sister-in-law, it never worked.....it was a failed attempt to upgrade from ME done by her mother who supposedly works in IT).
Well, needless to say, the hard drive was a mess. I decided to upgrade to XP Home because I had an unused Windows XP Home upgrade package.
So upgraded to XP Home, but the only way I could do that was to wipe the hard drive clean (not a problem and actually it was the right thing to do....she had a lot of junk on that hard drive).
XP Home works great but.......
Now when you boot I get the same Dos screen, but three choices of OS to boot: XP Home, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Pro. ME and 200 Pro are not on the HD so I don't quite understand why it's giving me this choice.
The HD has two partitions....one 20GB that contains XP and one 16mb.
This is outside of my area of expertise, but I'm guessing there is a .ini file on the 16mb partition and something called a boot loader which is what is giving me the prompt to choose and OS.
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of that prompt/prompt screen and just have Windows XP Home loaded?
I'm guessing I'll need to some how access and manipulate the .ini files and boot loader through the MS Dos prompt?
I'm unfamiliar with Dos commands, so I'm a little worried about messing with this stuff.
Any advice and/or links to other discussions that can help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!🙂
