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Name: PCpassive Date: October 2, 2003 at 04:47:23 Pacific OS: win2k sp3 CPU/Ram: 866/256
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Hello all, I recently bougt a new harddrive to use as primary master so i just made a ghost image of the old C: drive and put it on the new C: drive. At first it didnt work, the comp couldn't find a certain file. THen i found out that the file BOOT.INI has changed somehow, so i fixed it and the comp boots and works fine, but at startup i get the option to choose between Windows 2000 professional and WINNT(default). How do i remove this? Below is a copy of my boot.ini file
Name: wanderer Date: October 2, 2003 at 10:19:26 Pacific
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I don't recognize the /kernel=kernel01.exe.
Everything else looks fine except I don't see how you would be getting a menu. You have no timeout=[amount of seconds] line in your boot.ini. With no timeout line its suppossed to just execute.
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Response Number 2
Name: PCpassive Date: October 2, 2003 at 11:08:49 Pacific
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The /kernel=kernel01.exe is added for another bootscreen. That's not the problem cause i already removed it and still the same.
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Response Number 3
Name: PCpassive Date: October 2, 2003 at 11:16:30 Pacific
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Nevermind, I copied the boot.ini file from my xp machine to the 2k machine and edited it and it works fine now. Should've done that in the first place :)
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