re: Windows tries to start the wrong OS
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 1:14 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(1069 messages posted)
In the C: drive's root there is BOOT.INI .
It is an ASCII file. Here is my current one:
[boot loader]
timeout=120
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WIN2K="WIN2K" /fastdetect/
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="WINNT" /fastdetect/
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
As you can see I installed 2 copies of Windows 2000 to solve a maintenance problem.
They are on Partition(2) aka the "D: drive".
I don't remember offhand but I think that file is protected. So at the command level
enter:
ATTRIB.EXE -R -S -H C:\BOOT.INI
Then you can edit it and delete the line that refers to the incomplete XP installation.
You don't need to reestablish the system attribute for it to function. I never
bother.
Of course, I created a backup called BOOT.TXT before starting. I have made
invalid edits that would not boot anything -- some little syntax error, punctuation
mark -- and I had to use the repair console to copy back the original version and
start again.
Unless M$ft has done something to the BOOT.INI in XP. ...
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