win2k-boots to black screen with "Windows 2000 Professional"

[leigh6]

Hi, I used Moonsites suggestion and it worked great!!!! Boots directly into 2000. Thanks to everyone for their advice. This forum just ROCKS!!!!! (That is the people that are on it).

Just built my first. Everything is fine except very goofy startup. When I start up, quick boots (10 seconds) to a screen with 2 options. 1. Windows 2000 Professional (This is highlighted and I just hit enter for windows to start up). 2. Windows (Hit down arrow key to go there), I think this would take me to dos.
What did I do wrong. And can I fix this without reinstalling. I am still in a state of shock that I was able to make the build in the first place. You know the type. 7 years of college. 20 years running my own business. Dont know whether black wires are positive or negative. Was a project with my nephew.
BUT I AM HOOKED!!!!

Leigh

 

[txxxx]

It appears the Windows 2000 setup program detected the presence of an old operating system (e.g. windows 98, windows 95 etc). The simple way of removing this would be to edit your boot.ini file. This is on c:\ of the drive, and you'll need to make the file writeable within windows.

Your typical boot.ini should look something like this:
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[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

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Given that you only have Windows 2000 professional installed, and its the only operating system installed, it should look something like this -here im presuming you have only one hard disk, and its your primary disk:

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[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

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That should load up Windows 2000 Professional, and get rid of the boot menu with the phantom 'windows' install.

 

[leigh6]

THAT MUST BE IT!!!!

I used a win2000 upgrade cd for installation and after a while it said it didnt see any previous os. I then put in windows 98. It immediately asked me to put back in the 2000 cd and continued to install 2000.
I have printed what you wrote and will get a friend to do it. Too tough for me!!!!

THANKS TXXXX!!!!!!!!!

 

[moonsite]

Another way to do it is just to go to Control Panel/System and then click on the Advanced tab. Then click on Startup and Recovery. Choose Windows 2000 Pro as default and change the time from 30 seconds to 0. Just a way around so you don't have to edit the boot.ini.

 

[Matthias99]

Dont know whether black wires are positive or negative.

Um... black wires are ground. They're neither positive nor negative.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: leigh6
Just built my first. Everything is fine except very goofy startup. When I start up, quick boots (10 seconds) to a screen with 2 options. 1. Windows 2000 Professional (This is highlighted and I just hit enter for windows to start up). 2. Windows (Hit down arrow key to go there), I think this would take me to dos.
What did I do wrong. And can I fix this without reinstalling. I am still in a state of shock that I was able to make the build in the first place. You know the type. 7 years of college. 20 years running my own business. Dont know whether black wires are positive or negative. Was a project with my nephew.
BUT I AM HOOKED!!!!

Leigh

Congratulations on yor first build.

The extra "Windows" OS boot option, is there more than likely, because you used a DOS/Win98 boot disk to partition/format the HD first (I'm guessing). Like the other posts mention, you can un-hide the BOOT.INI file, and remove the line that begins with "C:\", and that will get rid of that "phantom" boot option.