Boot loader

[ra_sriniketan]

Got win2000 professional & XP professional.Recently XP crashed but at the boot time i can see both the OSs as a list.I want to remove winXP from the boot loading list.How?

 

[mod-the-pc]

Just remove the unwanted entry from the file boot.ini in your root drive.

 

[sanju]

just run msconfig from the run menu
from the general menu
select use original boot.ini

 

[ra_sriniketan]

Win2k professional give me the path of boot.ini,msconfig not running

 

[Vishal Gupta]

In C:\ drive, there will be a HIDDEN & Read-Only file named "Boot.ini".
Open this file and delete the line saying "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" (or something like that).
Make sure that the 3rd line saying Default= contains the path of Windows 2000 professional.
Now save the file and reboot to see the changes!

 

[balu_c]

Open your winnt folder under C: drive and find "boot.ini" file and remove entry for win xp and set default os to win2K this shoukd fix your problem

 

[hermit]

click--->Start ; RT click MY COMPUTER--->properties---->ADVANCE----->Start up and Recovery----> EDIT

DELETE THE OS NO LONGER EXISTS


HERMIT

 

[Ramakrishnan]

boot with winxp cd and at the recovery console type fixmbr. this may help

 

[ra_sriniketan]

Strangely could not locate the boot.ini file after unhiding the files in C: and could not find the EDIT button in strat up & recovery.

 

[samrulez]

just edit the boot ini found in the root of the c:\ just remove the line that says::: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT

 

[Kniwor]

Strangely could not locate the boot.ini file after unhiding the files in C: and could not find the EDIT button in strat up & recovery.

what is your boot partition.. look in the partition manager....
and boot.ini will be in that partition...

 

[47shailesh]

Proper way is that what HERMIT had suggested

 

[ra_sriniketan]

Win 2k is on the C: & Win XP in D:.How to see the partition manager?

 

[vysakh]

Strangely could not locate the boot.ini file after unhiding the files in C: and could not find the EDIT button in strat up & recovery.

in folder options, there is an option to hide the system files and folders. uncheck it and then you can see this file.
it mite be a read only file, so u will have to change the attributes.