I had to do multiple installs of Windows 2000 on different partiations of a SATA HD. I now want to erase the drive and do a fresh install of 2000. I used a windows 2000 cd to boot to setup deleted all the partiations and reformatted the drive and installed the 2000. The problem is when Windows boots it still asks me to choose which operating systems to load. The choices of OS are both windows 2000. I think the previous install of 2000 left files that the reparitioning and formatting did not erase. The files i need to delete are boot.ini, bootsect.dos, ntldr, ntdetect.com and ntbootdd.sys. Additional problem is since this is an SATA even if i boot using a boot disk the computer does not have the drivers that control the SATA HD so I cannot access them to delete these files. Anyone have an idea what i can do

I would not delete anything.

You may end up with a mess.

Go to the system propertis - advanced tab and fix it there.

HTH

M2

You need to edit your boot.ini file to remove reference to the windows 2000 install you deleted.

Boot.ini controls which OS boots up. Thus by deleting non-existent entries, it will not prompt you for those.

Also by changing the timeout value in the timeout entry line to zero will result in the default always being used without any further prompts.

If you dont like to do this manually then I believe there are admin tools that will allow you to do it.

Here is an example boot.ini of my triple boot system. Note the default is Windows 98SE as defined by the default line.

[boot loader]
timeout=15
default=C:\
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98se"
C:\man100.lnx="Linux Mandrake 10.0"

To give you an idea on defaults, for different defaults I would replace default line as follows:
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
default=C:\man10.lnx

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