Two W2K selections on startup

I mistakenly installed a second W2K operating selection
for my laptop start up. How do I remove the extra W2K
operating system?

Also, how do I change the wating time for the system to
choose which operating system to use?

Thanks,
Marvin

By default Windows 2000 installs in the \winnt directory. First Control
Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, choose the correct System
Startup option as default, then you'll need to delete the options you want
removed from the boot.ini, it's a system, hidden file in the root of the
system partition. So you'll need to show-all-files, hidden, system in
Explorer. You should end up with something like this (below). The timeout
value is not functional when there is only one startup choice. Then you can
remove the %windir% directory that your currently not using from drive. By
default Windows 2000 installs into the \winnt directory and this is the
%windir% From a command prompt
echo %windir%
will reveal the one your using (possibly \winnt2), then you can delete the
other one not in use. To be sure you can rename it, then later delete it.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
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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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

"Marvin" wrote:
> I mistakenly installed a second W2K operating selection
> for my laptop start up. How do I remove the extra W2K
> operating system?
>
> Also, how do I change the wating time for the system to
> choose which operating system to use?
>
> Thanks,
> Marvin