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by rstires

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I have a windows 2000 windows me dual boot system however i switched my video card out and formated all partitions reinstalled Windows Me and started to install windows 2000 when i found out that my new video card was not compatible with win 2000 setup crashed right after it copyed all the files to disk my question is how do you get the option to boot to win 2000 of the os menu when you boot up because now if left alone the compter well boot up and try to goto win 2000 by default after waiting 10 sec for you to choose which os you to boot into i cant seem to find any win 2000 files on my c drive or in config file that relates to this matter please tell my how to get win2000 off the menu or make win Me the default

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by steve

Edit the hidden file in the root the c: drive. The file is called boot.ini.

by tony.colgrove

Boot into WinME and create the emergency boot disk from the Add/Remove programs control panel. Copy sys.com from the c:\windows\command directory to this disk. Boot from the floppy and type a:\sys c:
This will restore the WinME boot sector on your harddrive and remove the Win2K Boot strap. You will no longer receive the prompt and boot straight into WinME

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