How to get rid of Win2k/WinME dual boot?

[puffpio]

I had a dual boot setup like in the topic, using the Win2K boot loader to choose between OS

I have deleted Win2K now (fdisk'ed the partition away and used some other partition software to give that extra space back to the WinME partition)

I tried running in WinME AND on a WinME boot floppy 'fdisk /mbr' to redo the master boot record and restore the old boot loader but it doesn't work!!!

Any ideas on how to rid myself of this selection screen?

 

[lodgiikal]

Type
fdisk /mbr

in dos. It won't mess up your partitions or anything. I just puts the boot record back to normal (ie no bootloader(dualboot))

 

[jsm]

Attrib boot.ini (it should be S H R).

Attrib -s -h -r boot.ini

Set default to WindowsME

Set time to 0

Attrib +s +h +r boot.ini


That works well. It doesn't update your mbr, but it works nonetheless.

 

[puffpio]

lodgiikal: I did that already, didn't work

jsm: I'll try that, I ever knew there was a boot.ini for WinME only for Win2K

update: no boot.ini in WinME root directory

 

[ginfest]

Are you sure you have "show all files" checked in folder options? When Win 2K, or Win XP are installed as dual-boot, a "boot.ini" file is created on the root "c" drive. Open an explorer window, tools, folder options, view, look at the 5th option, make sure "show hidden files and folders" is checked. Delete boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com. then reboot with a startup disk.
If fdisk/mbr doesn't work, although it should, try "sys c". This should also work.
Note that Win 9x and Win 2K share the same MBR. The only diff is what startup files are pointed to, ie autoexec.bat and config.sys or boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com