I have a dual boot W98/W2000 setup on my PC which has W98 on the primary partition C:(FAT32) and W2000 on a logical partition D: (FAT32 also). I would now like to introduce another W2000 boot on another FAT32 logical partition E: I have installed BootMagic to help me with all this but I can't seem to get rid of the W2000 default boot manager. Any ideas how to get rid. Also is there any particular way I should install the new W2000 boot on E: thanks

The 'default' W2K boot-manager will copy up one way or another - as it's part of W2K boot-sequence and this is an integral part of the boot-process in your system as is - even with the boot-manager util installed.... However, you don't need an add-in boot-manager util; you already have one in W2K that will do all you need. So best to remove it - saves disk space and unnecessary clutter? c: = fat32 = 98 + W2K boot/start-up files; d: = fat32 = W2K. Run W2K set-up from a CD boot/floppies whichever; point it to install to E: . It will add itself to the curent boot.ini; it will set itself as default OS to boot - which you can change (to whichever you want as default). Job done. It's useful to give the second W2K version a slightly different folder name - so as to clearly identify which is which in the boot.ini/boot-menu) at any time... Perhaps call second version winnt-2 as it's a pretty simple/obvious way to know which is which? If you want to understand the whole dual-boot process a little further, perhaps have a browse of ost-21665 #5 on this W2K forum; covers the how/why of it all in 'some' detail.

I like the sound of that, I wasn't really too stuck on using Bootmagic like this. I think you may have been quite useful there. Thankyou I will try that and hopefully there will be no problems. If not I will come back