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| Thread ID: 32979 | 2003-05-03 08:49:00 | annoying screen on win2k bootup | Term_X (560) | Press F1 |
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| 141026 | 2003-05-03 08:49:00 | i recently reinstalled win2k..sweet as no worries evrything runs fine but on bootup theres this annoying screen which im not sure how to get rid of.. theres this screen that asks which OS i want to boot up and at the bottom is the timer which counts down 30 seconds thing is theres 2 lines of "microsoft windows 2000 professional" but ive only got one win2k running after reinstall its a damn pain cos i have to push enter to boot into windows..when normally this screen never even shows up..someone tell me how do i get rid of ittttt..its killing me..! thanks in advance peac 2 yalls Term X |
Term_X (560) | ||
| 141027 | 2003-05-03 08:59:00 | right click on "my computer", left click on "properties" click the "advanced" tab on the top right, then down to the bottom you'll see a button called "startup and recovery..." click that. in the window that pops up, deselect "display list of operating systems for..." apply the changes and voila |
whetu (237) | ||
| 141028 | 2003-05-03 12:10:00 | Hi, If you have to reinstall Win2k again, and another line re-appears, my suggestion for you is to correctly edit the lines in your "Boot.ini" file that resides in your boot partition. |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 141029 | 2003-05-04 11:18:00 | i thnk that what i have to do.cos when i tried whetu's suggestion which i thought would be the one..it wouldnt boot up after that..said ntoskrnl.exe wasmissing or corrupt..so again..i reinstall win2k ! i think the answer lies in your suggestion The Student but.. how do i do what u suggested?..can u give me a step by step process to follow cheers man! |
Term_X (560) | ||
| 141030 | 2003-05-04 13:01:00 | ok, to do it the boot.ini way here's what you do: open up windows explorer and make sure it is set to show hidden files and folders, and that you can also view system files. Once windows explorer is setup like that, go to your root drive (normally c: ) and you will see a file called boot.ini sitting there. Open it with notepad, delete everything from it and change to it say the following: [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 save it and voila, your problem should be solved. Dont worry about changing the timeout, as far as boot.ini is concerned there's only one OS installed, so it wont fire up ntbootloader. Instead it will boot straight into the OS. |
whetu (237) | ||
| 141031 | 2003-05-04 13:02:00 | ack.. this forum software has weird autoformatting.. there's no space between the open bracket and operating systems [operating systems] not [ operating systems] |
whetu (237) | ||
| 141032 | 2003-05-04 13:13:00 | Yeah the forum software does the habit of throwing in the occasional or a space into the mixture. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 141033 | 2003-05-05 11:15:00 | just wanna say thanks whetu u the man.. just copied and pasted what ya put up into the boot.ini file.. rebooted worked sweeet! much appreciated man! peace |
Term_X (560) | ||
| 141034 | 2003-05-05 11:27:00 | Just for the record, next time I would suggest your use Win2K's Repair function rather than a re-install. Boot off the CD, and choose Repair instead of Install, and it should fix ya problems :-) Takes about 20 mins tops! Good to hear you got it going thou :-) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 141035 | 2003-05-05 11:38:00 | ahoiz dere chillin well guess what got home after work and that error came up again " windows cant boot etc etc ..cos the file ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupted" so instead this time i did use the repair function like u just mentioned instead of the reinstall and yups worked sweet! once that was done..then i actioned whetu's process to edit the boot.ini file took out the other line and woopwoop that screen doesnt show up anymore (one that was asking which win2k to boot into) on my previous reinstall i installed win2k into another directory and called it winnt2, when i opened the boot.ini file i saw that it still had a line for winnt which explains why that screen would come up after the last install. just wanna say got a lot of love for yalls.. helpin out this wannabe technician! but youre right chillin the win2k repair function fixed me sweet. peace out |
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