Boot up Win2K gives two choices, why?

[rcommer]

I originally installed Windows many times, but since have reformatted, even repartitioned hard drive and even changed out motherboard. But after a fresh install, a screen comes up with two choices

Windows 2000 Professional or
Windows 2000 Professional

and the clock is counting down from 26 seconds or so.

I always choose the first one, though second looks the same. How do I get just the one choice (and really no choice and no clock at all)? I just want it to boot up (but I also want to make sure there is not some sort of second windows boot sector. How do I clean the drive completely and start over?

Thanks everyone!

right click on my computer, click propertise.

click advance

click startup and recovery

unclick display list of operating systems for .....

You need to edit a file in the root of C:\ called "boot.ini". It is a hidden, system file so you will need to enable them in "Folder Options".

Just use notepad and delete the second line of Windows 2000 Professional.

Should look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Pro" /fastdetect

As long as their is only one choice, then the clock will not show up, but you can set the "timeout" to 0 if you don't want it to ever show up again.

EDIT- Of course, you could take the easy way out and do it the way GZ3 says...