How should I edit my boot.ini file to get rid of the 2k choice?

[RambleOn]

I had a second drive on my system on which I loaded Win2k, but it has crashed and is being RMA'd. I have Win98 on my primary hard drive, on two partitions C: an D: Even though the old drive isn't hooked up any more, I'm still getting that boot menu of course, and I can't seem to get rid of the Windows 2000 Professional option. I'd like to remove all traces of 2k that are on my primary drive for the time being, here are the contents of the boot.ini file:

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)/fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

Even though Windows 2000 isn't mentioned in there, it still shows up in the options. Thanks for any help.

 

[bacillus]

have you tried rewriting the master boot record by booting from the win98 startup floppy & using the fdisk /mbr command?

 

[WhoDeeny]

That's a left over from the Win2k, and there are no "traces of Win2k" on your current drive as NTFS isn't recognized by Win98. honeslty it'll cause no harm but the suggestion of re-writting the mbr should take care of it. One question for you though: Is there any particular reason you have Win98 on your D: drive?

 

[RambleOn]

hmm, I may have worded my orginal post poorly.

When I first put my comptuer together I put Win98se on my 30gig drive which has two partions, so Win98 actually only resides on drive C:, the D: drive is for games and other stuff. I have a cdrom and a cdrw which take up E, F. I ended up getting another 20gig drive which I formatted with Fat32 and only made 1 partition, I connected it as a slave. I loaded win2k on it, and didnt use NTFS, I was afraid of it at the time, although I think I may go to it when I get my new drive from the RMA. So I'm back to original config. with just one drive and 2 partitions running Win98se, and I want to get rid of that boot loader menu at startup. Thanks for listening, I was kind of living up to my nick in my original post

 

[WhoDeeny]

I've used both Win98SE and Win2k to compare the strengths of both and stuck with Win2k. Its a much more stable OS and haven't had it hang once, and believe me I be a multi-tasking mofo. Other than that I think we answered your question. If the MBR doesn't work you may have to reinstall your OS, if you're that hell-bent on getting it off of there

 

[BigFatCow]

try this Right click on my computer go to properites then advaced tag then startup and recovery then change what ever in here.

EDIT: sorry this is in windows 2000, im not sure if its in 98

 

[WhoDeeny]

<< try this Right click on my computer go to properites then advaced tag then startup and recovery then change what ever in here. >>



This would only work if he was running Win2k, which he's not

 

[BigFatCow]

sorry.

 

[WhoDeeny]

No worries FatCow, we all miss things form time to time. Like me fnially having the realization that DMA wasn't working on my computer b/c I didn't have the right cables, and it only took 2 months (OUCH!). But this is RambleOn's post, have we helped you yet?

 

[WhoDeeny]

That and the fact that I can't type...



<< No worries FatCow, we all miss things form time to time. Like me fnially having the realization that DMA wasn't working on my computer b/c I didn't have the right cables, and it only took 2 months (OUCH!). But this is RambleOn's post, have we helped you yet? >>

 

[FatMan42]

You just want to hide menu options? Use this Microsoft page. It works by kinda commenting-out anything you don't want to appear i.e. (cut'n'paste)...

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\NT351SVR
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\NT351SVR="NT Server 3.51"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\NT351SVR="NT Server 3.51 [VGA mode]"
/basevideo /sos
[any text]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT35="NT Wks 3.51"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT35="NT Wks 3.51 [VGA mode]"
/basevideo /sos]
C:\="MS-DOS"

...where everything after [any text] is hidden.