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In need of boot.ini help

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by rodman

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I recently put a removable drive into my system that has a win98 internal drive. After installing win2000 pro onto the removable drive my internal hard drive has the boot menu. My problem is that the menu has the win2000 choice first. I dont mindhaving the menu because I will eventually want to use it. But for now because my wife likes using 98 and has all her files there I would like to put win98 as the first choice and then move the time down to about 5 seconds. I know how to move the time down but Im not sure on how to change the boot.ini so that win98 is booted if nothing is chosen. ANy help can be sent to rodman@fast.net or left here. Thanks in advance to all that helps.

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by antsoair

Go to Control Panel...System. Select Advanced and then Startup and Recovery. The top of the page has a list box for default operating system. This is the one that will automatically boot to after your 5 second delay.

by rob

got to windows explorer>tools>folder options>view
check show hidden files and folders and uncheck hide protected operation system files(recommended)radio button. go to search for files or folders type in boot.ini when it pops up right-click it go to properties remove read only button, then open boot.ini, then delete the line with the oerating system you don't want or edit what you want then save it probably should back up boot.ini file first though just in case

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