Windows Start-up

[Jaime]

When starting the computer up, a scren displays two
choices of Operating Systems: Windows 2000 and Windows
XP. Only Windows XP works. Is there a way to delete the
Windows 2000 choice? Thanks

 

[George Hester]

On the drive that boots first there is a file called boot.ini at the root. It is hidden and read-only. You need to activate Show all hidden folders\files first. Do that Windows Explorer | Tools | Folder options... | View uncheck and decheck all applicable in the list box below as the case may be to be able to see all hidden files\folders.

Back to boot.ini. Remove the read-only attribute. Windows Explorer | right-click select boot.ini | Properties | uncheck the read-only attribute on the General pane.

Now open the file in Notepad:

Under bootloader:
[boot loader]
timeout=0

Under the above this:

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\Windows

This is for my configuration. You will pick the one in the list under [operating systems] that corresponds to the operating system you want to boot as default. Copy that up under tiemout=0 just remove the = "Windows 2000..." That is just the description you see in the OS loader. Save boot.ini and return the attributes back to what they were before you did all this. HTH.

The other way is to right-click My Computer | Properties | Advanced | Startup and Recovery | display list of operating systems set to 0 and make sure the default op sys is the one you want Windows XP.