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change boot.ini boot order ?
Yep, Boot up into your W98SE Installation & Edit the Boot.ini to get rid of the Redundant Entries in it. & also it would be a good idea to Delete the various .... From then on, all the other WinXP Installs you do will just *Edit* it. ... and therefore if you wanted to start with a clean sheet you would delete the

Back to multi-booting the RAID - again. . .
Pegasus I....@fly.com microsoft public win2000 general To get a clean installation, you must make sure that your target directory (eg c:\winnt) does not exist. Let the installation process create it. If you have a pre-existing file c:\boot.ini then the installation routine will indeed create a new entry.

Boot.ini and ARC path confusion..
I know this dual boot menu can be removed by editing the boot.ini file. Unfortunately I've never seen a boot.ini file from a machine that wasn't set up to dual boot so I have no idea how to edit this file appropriately. Could some one that has XP installed as a clean install with NO dual boot copy and paste their

Fresh Clean XP Install - two choices showing at start up
Hi Adam, to get your problem solved do this steps: 1 open your drive C: & look fot the file 'boot.ini' 2 right cklik it & select property un check read only attribut & cklik OK. 3 Open boot.ini in the note pad & remove this line 'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"

Win98SE w/ XP SP2 - bootsect.dos error
and set the Timeout to "0" in Boot.ini. 6. Save the boot.ini file. From within WinXP delete the following folders from the Win2k partition: Documents and Settings Program Files WinNT Also might find and delete the hiberfil.sys file on the root of the Win2k partition. Hope this helps! Gary Thorn MVP-WinXP Associate

Winnt Clean Disk - Crash from power failure
... the NT equivalent of scandisk you can do this easily by adding the switch /autocheck to the OS line in your boot.ini file- the only problem is editing boot.ini. I'm not sure what you mean by "clean the disks." If you have the NT install disks and CD-ROM, you can boot from the install disks and reinstall NT.

Bamboozled by boot.ini (and some others... )
So I have a new drive to install and will load XP pro on it, but my question concerns whether or not I will be required to edit or replace my boot.ini file. Works for me anyway .. ;) I wouldn't take the chance on simply loading XP and hoping the boot loader will work, I'd 'clean' it, as above, then install XP

Reinstalling Win2K (Clean) on Dual Boot System
I've gone a displayed all the hidden files, unhidden the protected os system files (still no boot.ini) and don't know why there's any sign of NT still on the How can I perform a truely clean install? Thanks, Jeff. ---------------------------------- Jeff D. Hamann 280 Peavy Hall Department of Forest Resources

Simple Add SCSI Drive Question
... to what it was originally on the previous drive (which restores the programs to the proper pathing) and on the next boot the whole thing should be clean. If you don't care about the Dell utilities partition, you can simply change the entries in the boot.ini to reflect partition(1) in every instance that it

Installed XP Home clean over XP Prof beta, but...
Maybe wrong.....but...just messing with the ini/sys files does not clean the junk out. XP is a great op but it still leaves data scattered on the drive, Actually, what he is experiencing is a reminant left over because when he reinstalled the boot.ini file was left unchanged and was modified during the

Swap Win98 drive before XP install?
Spenno ?~...@beano.com 24hoursupport helpdesk [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.

Error during XP clean install
Let's move on to your Boot.ini file. Originally your hard drive had a small first partition, 39MB, and a large second partition, your C drive. That would account for the second entry The boot.ini issue can be resolved by editing out the reference to partition 2. Here's what your boot.ini file should look like.

clean install yields 2 WIN2K OSs
COM, plus Boot.ini, which is not copied from the CD but built on the HD by Setup. And then there is the boot sector, which is not a file at all; you can't use When I set up the present 64bit system, I wanted a RAID and I wanted to keep it reasonably clean with just the XP x64 and one Linux (to keep abreast with

Clean Install - No multi-boot
See here for more boot.ini information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323427/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307061/en-us http://support.microsoft. com/kb/289022/en-us John Jim wrote: I'm dual booting XP Pro on HD1 and Windows Server 2003 on HD2. I recently had to do a clean reinstall of XP and now I can no

clean install ??
You can set the default selection, timeout and edit the BOOT.INI file from here. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/9x Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes I reformatted my hard drive and did a clean install of Win XP; however, when I boot, I get a DOS-like screen asking me if I want to boot into Windows XP or Windows

Boot.ini problems
Edit the boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot. How to Create a Bootable Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q119467 It may be easiest to just blow it away and start a new install. To do a clean install, either boot the Windows

Restarting in ''Clean Boot'' mode
Or from the "Run" box; edit C:\boot.ini -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 "..then you'll need to delete the options you want removed from the boot.ini" "uncheck the box for "Hide protected operating system files" to locate the files in the

Goofed on clean install
Why do I need a boot.ini for Win XP Pro SP2? Why do I need it at all?. Anyway, Thought all the ini's went South with the advent of the Registry. (but 1984-2000 listed on boot screen). This is a mini-comp w/ small, very clean, very modern-looking 8" x 7" motherboard. Unit looks like new inside.

Clean reinstall of XP to boot partitionin a multiboot situatio
Disk01Part01 is ALWAYS "C:" no matter how I configure the boot.ini or which disk I tell the BIOS to boot to. I have no disk/boot mangers installed just two clean installs of WinXP pro. It might be worth mentioning that the partition on the second HD was created by duplicating the first partition using partition

Why is upgrade fine, but clean install bombs?
However this is problem only for a few files located on root of system partition (ntldr. itself, ntdetect.com, boot.ini, ntbootdd.sys, bootsect.dos). All other files can be accessed by scsi miniport driver ntbootdd.sys (this is common name for copy of disk driver of your primary disk controller such as updated