Uninstalling additional 2000 installs

[Cecelia]

I had a virus in my registry on my computer that that
caused my computer to boot up load and then reboot in a
continuous loop. My ERD didn't recover it, using the MMC
didn't either. For fear of loosing my work I decided to
see if re-installing windows would help. I re-installed
windows only to continue to have one problem after the
next.

The bottom line is I had to re-install twice so now I have
my initial install, a Windows1 and a windows 2. The
windows 2 allowed me to boot up correctly but I couldn't
access my files from the original install. So out of
frustration I decided to upgrade to XP. I installed XP
after several attempts. The registry problem in the
orignal install of 2000 got corrected with the install of
XP, but XP can only see my C drive, none of the other
drives are available.

What this has done is enabled me to recover my original
install of 2000 which I want to keep, as well as XP and
just use as a dual boot. My question is how do I remove
the other two windows 2000 that I installed. I used to
dual boot with 98 & 2000, and when I decided to stop using
98 there was somewhere I had to remove the what I thought
was a 98 .ini command so that at boot up it would only
show 2000 instead of 98 and 2000. I know that is what I
need to do to remove the other 2000 installs I just can't
remember where I remove that particular command.

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bruce diamond]

To delete the other windows installations, you'll need to
edit the hidden system file called boot.ini. In XP, there
is a utility to do this, but I don't remember what it's
called (It's either somewhere in the properties of My
Computer or included with msconfig). Anyway, you'll need
to take out the entries that refer to the other 2
installations and change the DEFAULT entry to the XP
installation.

After that's done, all you have to do is delete the
directories that contain the other installations. That's
it.


-Bruce D

 

[Walter Donavan]

After editing boot.ini, you can simply delete the other
installations--assuming they are on separate partitions.

 

[Guest]

Walter,
Thanks for your help. I have the hidden files set so that I can see them. I did a search for my boot.ini file and the search can't fine one. Any suggestions?