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by aisec

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I had on my computer windows 2000 and windows98 on a dual Boot. I just erased windows 2000, but the (double) booting menu still appears. Does anyone knows how to bypass this menu and automatically boot into windows 98?

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by rabbit_runner

There are a couple of things that you can do.

1. find the boot.ini file - remove the checks for the attributes - then edit the file. Set the default time to '0' seconds. This will cause the system to boot without you seeing the boot menu. IT will default to the Win98.

2. When in Win98, create a bootable floppy and copy the sys.com file to it. Then boot from the floppy and at the a: prompt, type sys c: This will remove the win2k loader from the MBR.

by cdobbin

Now that you have removed WIN2K this will not work, but here's what I did and it worked fine. Boot into WIN2K and make sure that 98 is the first OS in the boot menu and decrease the time to wait to zero. I then deleted the WINNT dir and when you reboot you will not see the menu(although it is still there), and it will boot into 98 without displaying the menu.

by arg cio

just boot to Win98.. go to a DOS prompt, and sys c: (you may have to boot into safe mode command prompt). If that doesn't work.. then make a Win98 boot diskette, and sys c: as mentioned earlier.

by top_banana

The definitive answer is as follows :

Boot into W98 and create a Start up disk.
Find the following files in the root of your C:\ drive which are required for W2000 to boot. Rename the files by changing their extensions, for example...
BOOT.INI> BOOT.BAK
NTLDR > NTLDR.BAK
NTDETECT.COM > NTDETECT.BAK

Restart your PC and boot off your W98 start-up disk.
At the command prompt, type :
FDISK /MBR
then
SYS C:

This should solve your boot problems

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