boot.ini

[Velm]

I removed a useless instance of windows 2000, the option
is still available when I boot up to choose the new and
old OS. How do I modify the boot.ini to remove it
completely?

 

[Ray at]

It currently looks something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect


Note the difference in the two multi... lines. This is a boot.ini of a
machine with W2K installed on C and D. If I wanted to delete the option for
the OS on drive D, I'd delete the line with "partition(2)" in it.

Just be careful and make sure you double check what you do. You can also
just set the timeout to 0, and you won't be bothered with selection anymore,
but that's the band-aid approach.

Ray at work