Dual boot!

[Bill Gates Jr]

Hi
I have put another O/S on my hard disk and got rid of an old one but my bootup shows me the old O/S as an option.How do I get rid of this?
I remember that a file has all the dirctories.Is it the msdos.sys file?
Thanks

[POBrien]

what is the new os and what was the old one?

[Bill Gates Jr]

Wow
that's quick
I have two win2000 and old one was win98
Thanks!

[POBrien]

Go to your boot drive (usually C:). Locate the boot.ini file, make a copy of it and paste the copy into a folder. now right click on the original boot.ini file and select properties. Uncheck the Read-Only attribute. Now open the file into notepad.

You'll see a similar line exampled below

C:\="Microsoft Windows 98FE"

remove the line and save the file. Re-add the read-only attribute and then reboot.




[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00/Exchange 5.5"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98FE"