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Hi friends
I had two operating Systems --- Windows 98 in C drive and Windows 2000 in D drive. Recently I formatted D drive. Now whenever I restart my computer, it asks me two options that which operating system you want to useWindows 2000 Professional
Windows 98My requirement is that there should be no option and my computer should directly switch to Windows 98
Plz tell me the solution. I will be very thankful to you.
Right click "my computer" while in Win2000 and select properties, then advanced, then startup and recovery, then toggle the OS your want to be the default in the text window, then you can select how long the boot selection will show. The default is 30 seconds. I don’t recommend setting to 0 but if you want less time make it say 10 seconds. That way you can still get to windows 2000 from there. If you don’t want to have the choice at all set to 0. Then you will need to hit F8 on bootup to get the choice. If you elect to keep the boot choice the default OS will start automatically without user intervention.
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You should be able to edit the boot.ini file found in ur windows folder. sometimes this file is hidden so u may have to change ur folder options. open boot.ini in notepad then delete the line for win 2000 then save and reboot. the other boot option should be gone. and u should boot only to 98 now.
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If I understand correctly, you want to
remove the OS selection menu, and boot
straight into 98. If this is what you want
to do, obtain a Windows 98 boot diskette
(the disk will need to have fdisk and the
sys command on it)
Boot your computer with the Windows 98 book
disk, at the prompt type sys c: and then
hit enter. Next type fdisk /mbr and then
restart the computer. Your computer should
now restart without any interuptions.
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Hi all
on post # 5 by upal 2 I can agree with doing a sys c: but would not do a fdisk/mbr it can cause more problems then it fixes. If you have a drive overlay or any program that wrote to the mbr , you will not like the resaults. Would only do a fdisk/mbr as a very last resort on a hdd that gave a no OS error.
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Originally C: (drive0) = '98; D: (drive1) = W2K; and C: has the W2K boot-loader etc. installed therein.
D: reformatted (thus no W2K around); so only '98 remains installed on C: .
To set the boot to '98 only: i.e. to remove the W2K boot-loader/reset the mbr (on the '98/Master drive) to dos/'9x version:
Boot with a '98 boot-disk; type:
sys c:
at the a: prompt and press Enter. Remove boot-floppy and you boot only to '98.
The " sys c: " (no " ") routine resets/rewrites the mbr from the W2K version to dos/'9x version - and this is all that is required.
You can then delete ntldr/ntdetect.com/boot.ini files (these are the W2K boot-files and no longer required). There is no need to run the fdisk /mbr routine at any point in the proceedings...
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