Strange phenomenon with multi boot system

[Odie Ferrous]

I have just finished (re)installing and configuring one of my systems.

There are 2 Windows XP partitions, and 1 Windows 2000 partitions.

On startup, these three partitions are listed and all work perfectly.

However, the system has somewhere along the line decided to add a FOURTH
line, which it calls Windows(default) and on an unsupervised bootup,
this is the system that the operating system defaults to. (And when it
does default to that, it won't boot - something recognisable like
"couldn't boot" and "replace ....hal")

I have only one instance of boot.ini on the entire system and find this
extremely frustrating.

Does anyone have any ideas?


Thanks

Odie

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[David Candy]

Post your boot.ini

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Odie,

Start/run msconfig, go to the boot.ini tab. Select one of the valid lines,
the nclick "set as default". Click apply/ok and reboot. Does it now default
to a valid installation? If so, return to boot.ini, click on "check all boot
paths", it should prompt to remove the invalid one.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Odie Ferrous]

Sorry, all - and thanks for the replies.

I just found out what was causing it.

In the "Default" OS to start, I had //da//da//da \WINDOWS /etc

when because that default is Windows 2000, it should have been
//da//da//da \WINNT /etc

Thanks all - easy end to a really stupid mistake.

Odie