Prompts for Dual Boot after Formatting Drive and Installing One OS!

[LABachlr]

A client of mine gave me his former Dell HD which had WinXP Home on it (he upgraded to a much larger and faster drive). I just finished formatting the drive, partitioning it into two partitions (C drive with 10GB and D drive with 28GB), and installing Win2k on the C drive. I also formatted the D drive with the NTFS file system (did same for C drive). So, both drives should be rid of anything that was on there, including the former OS. However, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Now, when I boot it up, it boots up in a dual boot format asking which OS I would like to boot with, Win2k or WinXP. :confused:

Anyone ever experience this one before? What's the deal?

[Beeblequix]

that's too weird...

What happens when you select the XP Home selection?

How did you prepare this hard drive for Win2k? FDISK? PM?

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[LABachlr]

Originally posted by Beeblequix
that's too weird...

What happens when you select the XP Home selection?

How did you prepare this hard drive for Win2k? FDISK? PM?

ß

I have never tried selecting it because I know that it is no longer on there. I prepared Win2k with a fresh install booting from the disk, deleting the partitions, creating new partitions, formatting the C drive to NTFS, and then after it was installed, when I was up and running, I formatted the D drive to NTFS. I thought after I formatted the D drive that it would fix the problem. Guess again! No FDISK (used Win2k setup) and don't know what PM is.

[sm8000]

PM is Partition Magic. If you right-click on My Computer and choose something like Environment Variables, can't remember what it's called, think it's the far right tab, somewhere in there is a place you can control boot options, such as the list of OSes to show in the boot menu and for how long. Maybe you can remove the entry if it's still there, or set the selection time to zero and have it boot straight in Win2k.

[LABachlr]

Originally posted by sm8000
PM is Partition Magic. If you right-click on My Computer and choose something like Environment Variables, can't remember what it's called, think it's the far right tab, somewhere in there is a place you can control boot options, such as the list of OSes to show in the boot menu and for how long. Maybe you can remove the entry if it's still there, or set the selection time to zero and have it boot straight in Win2k.

Bingo! I just went into the properties of My computer, Advanced, Startup and Recover, and told it not to display the available OS's and selected Win2k as the default.

Thank you, sir! :cool:

[Sterling_Aug]

You could have also edited the hidden file boot.ini on the c: drive to edit out the extra OS lines to get the same result.

[sm8000]

You're welcome. Glad it worked out for you :t

[LABachlr]

Originally posted by sm8000
You could have also edited the hidden file boot.ini on the c: drive to edit out the extra OS lines to get the same result.

Thanx for the tip. :cool:

[sm8000]

LOL....I didn't post that! But thanks for the credit :cool:

[LABachlr]

Originally posted by sm8000
LOL....I didn't post that! But thanks for the credit :cool:

LOL. Whoops. I orginally hit the quote button from your post instead of Sterling's. When I noticed that, I just changed the text and forgot to change who I was quoting. Sorry, Sterling.

Originally posted by Sterling_Aug
You could have also edited the hidden file boot.ini on the c: drive to edit out the extra OS lines to get the same result.

Thanx! :cool: