Boot annoyance

[Guest]

I upgraded from Win98 but with a clean install. When I boot I get a dual boot
screen to toggle between Win2k and 98, eccept that the 98 option isn't
available. It either counts down from 24 sec. or I can hit enter to move on.
Is there any way I can get rid of this initial screen?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Sounds like you now have a dual-boot. If both OS's are installed to the same
partition then there won't be a clean break as they share some files and or
folders. Best to do a clean install.

First Control Panel|System|Startup /Shutdown, 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 C:\. So you'll need to show-all-files, hidden, system, in
Explorer. You should end up with something like this. The timeout value is
not functional when there is only one startup choice. Then you can remove
the \windows directory (assuming Windows 2000 is installed in \winnt)

The line your going to remove from the boot.ini will be similar to
C:\="Microsoft Windows"

[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"
/fastdetect

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:
|I upgraded from Win98 but with a clean install. When I boot I get a dual
boot
| screen to toggle between Win2k and 98, eccept that the 98 option isn't
| available. It either counts down from 24 sec. or I can hit enter to move
on.
| Is there any way I can get rid of this initial screen?

 

[George Hester]

A clean install means just that. You install over a partion that is "clean" reformatted. You installed over the top of
your Windows 98 for how else does XP know anything about Windows 98?

You can do one of two things. Reinstall again but this time completely reformat before you install XP. If you are
using the Upgrade CD-ROM of XP and when it needs a qualifying product you remove the XP Upgrade CD
ROM; pop in your Windows 98 CD-ROM; and after it is found your return the XP CD-ROM and proceed.

Or you can edit the boot.ini file which is a hidden file on your root. Remove the Read-only attribute; open it with
Notepad; set

[boot loader]
timeout=0

; save it and set it back to Read-only.

To see hidden files and folders in Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder options... | View tab you will see what is
available there to keep things from being hidden from you. Check and uncheck as the case may be.

Finally this is a Windows 2000 newsgroup. There is a Windows XP newsgroup:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.