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OS Mess!
Name: Dennis Date: June 5, 2003 at 13:32:30 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 pro/win 95 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I got my comp with win 95, decided to upgrade to 2000. turns out i want 98. got win 2000 pro and win 95 on one partition in a big mess, 2000 is out of boot.ini and suposivly off the hard drive, but it still shows up on the boot screen. if i format the disk to remove dos partitions will that solve the prob since the original os was 95 and 2000 is on that partition? please help, friend needs comp in next couple of days.
Name: Andy Supernova Date: June 5, 2003 at 16:57:41 Pacific
Reply:
Alright!, follow these steps:
Load Win95, click on Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Add/Remove Programs. Then click on the third tab ("Startup disk" if my memory doesn't betray me). Grasp your hands on a diskette, place it and make a boot disk.
When finished, leave it on and restart the machine to boot from the diskette. Press F8 when it says "Loading Windows 95" and select "Command prompt only". This will take you to the DOS prompt. At it, type "SYS A: C:" and this will overwrite your hard disk's boot sector with a clean copy of Windows 95's boot image that will overwrite the Win2K menu.
That's it!. Remove the diskette and restart your computer again and whala!
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