This has been answered. For a special project I sequentially installed several different OS on a particular machine — install W98, then wipe it during install of W2000, then wipe during install of Vista, etc. We had a power outage during one install. Now, the machine always tries to dual-boot — offers the choice of W2000 or the most recently installed OS. The W2000 choice, however, is not really there (lead only to a message that ntosldr.exe is missing — of course). QUESTION: How do I get rid of the erroneous dual-boot choice?
NOTE (added 6/27): The Phantom and the present OS are both Windows 2000, hence no boot.ini file is present in the OS.