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Gareth Morris

I have recently installed Windows 2000 Pro for a friend.
She had already tried to insatll the programm herself,
but had not entered the required password for the
administrator so the installation failed. I re-installed
via bootup discs and the installation worked, but
following switchon of the PC there are now 2 Windows 2000
Pro choices for access. Although there is no problem in
choosing my installtion which works should I be trying to
remove the other failed installation and, if so, how?
 
Are there two installs or simply two startup options. If the former are they
on the same or separate partitions?

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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| I have recently installed Windows 2000 Pro for a friend.
| She had already tried to insatll the programm herself,
| but had not entered the required password for the
| administrator so the installation failed. I re-installed
| via bootup discs and the installation worked, but
| following switchon of the PC there are now 2 Windows 2000
| Pro choices for access. Although there is no problem in
| choosing my installtion which works should I be trying to
| remove the other failed installation and, if so, how?
 
The option comes almost immediately after the PC is
switched on so I am assuming they are 2 start up options.
They are both on the same C partiton as there is no other
partiton such as D

Thanks

Gareth
 
By default Windows 2000 installs in the \winnt directory. First Control
Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, choose the correct System
Startup option as default, then you'll need to delete the options you want
removed from the boot.ini, it's a system, hidden file in the root of the
system partition. So you'll need to show-all-files in Explorer.
Explorer|Tools|Folder Options|View, then radio button for "Show hidden files
and folders" *and* also uncheck the box for "Hide protected operating system
files". You should end up with something like this (below). The timeout
value is not functional when there is only one startup choice. Then you can
remove the %windir% directory that your currently not using from drive. By
default Windows 2000 installs into the \winnt directory and this is the
%windir% From a command prompt
echo %windir%
will reveal the one your using (possibly \winnt2), then you can delete the
other one not in use. To be sure you can rename it, then later delete it.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

| The option comes almost immediately after the PC is
| switched on so I am assuming they are 2 start up options.
| They are both on the same C partiton as there is no other
| partiton such as D
|
| Thanks
|
| Gareth
 
The option comes almost immediately after the PC is
switched on so I am assuming they are 2 start up options.
They are both on the same C partiton as there is no other
partiton such as D

Thanks

Gareth
 
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