windows install not exactly right

[camaro]

I got a new pc and I'm in the process of installing everything. I usually make 2 partitions in the beginning. One for OS and another for data. So I installed win2k in the first 5GB partition and I wanted to reformat the second 115GB partition in windows, but it always gave me errors. I went to reformat again and just made one partition. I reinstalled again and now I have 2 win2k OSs to choose from. There is only one since I reformatted, but it shows 2 options at the dual boot screen. How do I erase one of those options? I remember doing this a long time ago when I got rid of my Linux that I used to dual boot with. But now I forgot.

[Tazman]

camaro -

Sounds like you are seeing the option of booting to Windows 2000 twice at boot from the boot loader?

If this is the case, first make sure that both choices will actually boot to W2K by selecting each choice on two different boots.

If that is the case, all you need to do is edit your boot.ini file - c:\boot.ini with notepad. You'll see the last two lines that look something like this (mine is modified so use just as reference )

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro sucks Winblows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /KERNEL=LOGOOS.EXE

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro sucks Winblows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /KERNEL=LOGOOS.EXE

All you need to do is wipe the duplicate line out and save. Reboot and that should be it.

BTW, getting rid of an errant Linux install is the fdisk /mbr from a 98 boot disk.

Hope that helps!

Mike

[camaro]

Thanks man!

[Tazman]

That did it huh .

Well at least one thing went right today, eh?.

Mike