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by curtkiesling

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I was dual booting WIN ME[ primary HD and WIN2000[secondary HD]. And I deleted and formatted the WIN2000[secondary HD]. I still get the dual booting option of WIN2000 and WIN ME when my pc boots up. Is there any way I can get rid of the dual boot option?
thanks,
Curt

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by smurfish

The windows 2000 bootloader is still inside your Master Boot Record (MBR). Try hte following:
fdisk /mbr
within the WinME environment to remove the Win 2K bootloader.

regards
Thomas

by jgruhler

Change the value of the "multiboot=" option in your msdos.sys file to zero.
Look on the Root of C drive for the msdos.sys file. (MAKE A BACKUP COPY IN ANOTHER FOLDER BEFORE CHANGING THE ORIGINAL)It is hidden system file so you will have to have the "show all files" option selected in your "folder option / view tab. Open the MSDOS.SYS file in notepad or any text editor. (BE CAREFULL NOT TO CHANGE THE NUMBER OF BITES THIS FILE CONTAINS.DO EXACTLY AS DISCRIBED BELOW) Look for the section labeled"Options". Under options find the line that Says "Multiboot=1" Change the 1 to 0 (zero). Then save the changes and restart. The dual boot option will be gone.

by jgruhler

Edit the value of the "Bootmulti=" option and check and correct the "boot path" in your msdos.sys file.
Look on the Root of C drive for the MSDOS.SYS file. (MAKE A BACKUP COPY IN ANOTHER FOLDER BEFORE CHANGING THE ORIGINAL)It is hidden system fileso you will have to have the "show all files" option selected in your "folder option / view tab". Open the MSDOS.SYS file in notepad or any text editor. After opening MSDOS.SYS in the text editor, look for the section labeled "Options". Under options find the line that Says "Bootmulti=1" Change the 1 to 0 (zero). Next look at the "Path" section and make sure the "WinDir=" and the "WinBootDir=" and the "HostWinBootDrv=" all point to the correct drive and directory for your Win ME. Then save the changes and restart. The dual boot option will be gone and you should boot directly to ME.

by jgruhler

Edit the value of the "Bootmulti=" option and check and correct the "boot path" in your msdos.sys file.
Look on the Root of C drive for the MSDOS.SYS file. (MAKE A BACKUP COPY IN ANOTHER FOLDER BEFORE CHANGING THE ORIGINAL)It is hidden system fileso you will have to have the "show all files" option selected in your "folder option / view tab". Open the MSDOS.SYS file in notepad or any text editor. After opening MSDOS.SYS in the text editor, look for the section labeled "Options". Under options find the line that Says "Bootmulti=1" Change the 1 to 0 (zero). Next look at the "Path" section and make sure the "WinDir=" and the "WinBootDir=" and the "HostWinBootDrv=" all point to the correct drive and directory for your Win ME. Then save the changes and restart. The dual boot option will be gone and you should boot directly to ME.

by jgruhler

Well Slap ME and Call me stupid!! I must have been asleep when I answered this. All excuses aside "I'm an Idiot"!!
Sorry!

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