win2000 pro is installed twice when i boot up.

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There are two entries for windows 2000 pro when i boot the pc up.
I did muck it up once when I installed to the D:
How do I safely remove the errant install?
Thank you.
 
jd said:
There are two entries for windows 2000 pro when i boot the pc up.
I did muck it up once when I installed to the D:
How do I safely remove the errant install?
Thank you.
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You can do this:
1. Boot into the correct versioin of Win2000.
2. Click Start/Run
3. Type cmd {OK}
4. Type this: set SystemRoot
and memorise the response.
5. Type this: notepad c:\boot.ini
You will see lines such as
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT=...
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS=...
The first line means that there is a Windows installation in c:\WinNT.
The second line means that there is a Windows installation in d:\Windows
You should retain the line that refers to the response from Step 4,
and delete the line that does not. Save and close the file.
6. Type this: ren d:\Windows Windows.bad
(assuming th d:\Windows is the installation you do not want).
7. Wait a few days. If all is well, delete d:\Windows.bad.
 
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