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Name: ruler68jg Date: December 25, 2003 at 11:19:47 Pacific OS: MS Xin XP Pro CPU/Ram: IP 4 1800 MHz / 512 SD
Comment:
Hello ! I have a little problem, which I that I have 2 Harddrives on my PC on had Linux Mandrake Installed on it, recently I have formatted that drive and use it as an empty stroge device (no problems there) But most irritateing thing is when the computer boots it comes up with a Mandrake screen with multi OS chooesing options. What shell I do to get the normel windows boot back so when I start so it just do normel win XP pro boot and start windows and get rid of the irritateiing Mandrake boot screen.
Name: Alan56 Date: December 25, 2003 at 11:28:40 Pacific
Reply:
You need to edit your boot.ini file
back it up 1st then edit in notepad removing the string regarding Linux Madrake line save and then reboot and all should be good to go
HTH Alan56
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Name: ruler68jg Date: December 26, 2003 at 02:07:47 Pacific
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Hi thanks for your answer, I actuelly had an idea of that , but would be so kind to explain how should I do it where to find boot.ini ect
kind regards
Happy X-Mas and a Happy New Year :o)
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Response Number 3
Name: ruler68jg Date: December 26, 2003 at 04:54:51 Pacific
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Hello I am in trouble !!! I made some changes in the boot.ini and now I cant start windows. Please help me , I hope that i have not messed up every thing , there is lots of importent data and info on my pc help! help!help!
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