Two copies of Win2K on the new drive???

[M Skabialka]

I have a laptop with a new hard drive. The original one had a diagnostics
partition so on the new drive I set up two partitions, one 50 MB for
diagnostics, the rest for Windows 2000 Pro.

However I realized after it was set up that the Windows drive was the D:
drive so started over, removed the partitions, made the large one first,
then the 50 MB one. Then I reinstalled Win2k.

The first time it rebooted it asked which version of Win 2K to boot to. So
I started over again, making sure that both partitions were gone, then set
then up again.

It still gives me two option to boot to Win 2000. Since there should only
be one copy of the operating system, how do I get rid of the listing of two
systems. Or if there really is another copy hidden somewhere on the drive,
how do I get rid of it?

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

What would happen if I just deleted one of the lines? Is there still an
extra OS eating up space?

Thanks,
Mich

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

Mich

Did you use quick format when you formatted the partition? This sometimes
leaves the old boot.ini, even if the operating system is removed.

Probably, the second line is the one that should be removed.

If you select the first line, does Windows start?

If you select the second line, does Windows start?

Remove the line that doesn't work.

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[M Skabialka]

The second line gave an error booting up - it wasn't able to find windows,
so I deleted that line.
All is well,
Thanks,

Mich

Mich

Did you use quick format when you formatted the partition? This sometimes
leaves the old boot.ini, even if the operating system is removed.

Probably, the second line is the one that should be removed.

If you select the first line, does Windows start?

If you select the second line, does Windows start?

Remove the line that doesn't work.

Best regards

Bjorn
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Bjorn Landemoo - (e-mail address removed) - http://landemoo.com/
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server - File System)

I have a laptop with a new hard drive. The original one had a diagnostics
partition so on the new drive I set up two partitions, one 50 MB for
diagnostics, the rest for Windows 2000 Pro.

However I realized after it was set up that the Windows drive was the D:
drive so started over, removed the partitions, made the large one first,
then the 50 MB one. Then I reinstalled Win2k.

The first time it rebooted it asked which version of Win 2K to boot to. So
I started over again, making sure that both partitions were gone, then set
then up again.

It still gives me two option to boot to Win 2000. Since there should only
be one copy of the operating system, how do I get rid of the listing of two
systems. Or if there really is another copy hidden somewhere on the drive,
how do I get rid of it?

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

What would happen if I just deleted one of the lines? Is there still an
extra OS eating up space?

Thanks,
Mich