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remove win 2000 boot manager

#1 User is offline   Rabscuttle 

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Posted 27 March 2000 - 02:44 AM

I set my computer up to dual boot into 98 and 2000. I have removed 2000, but I can't get rid of the boot manager. Is there a way to do this without formatting everything?
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Posted 27 March 2000 - 03:42 AM

Edit the boot.ini and set timeout=0. This doesn't really get rid of it, but at least you won't ever see it.
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#3 User is offline   SHS 

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Posted 27 March 2000 - 03:52 AM

boot in to Win98 dos prompt or a floppy boot disk.
Make sure both sys.com & fdisk.exe is on the floppy disk.
from harddisk
<tpye> fdisk /mbr
from flppy disk
<tpye> fdisk /mbr c:
then
from floppy or harddisk
<tpye> sys c:
all done

[This message has been edited by SHS (edited 27 March 2000).]
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#4 User is offline   Rabscuttle 

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Posted 27 March 2000 - 06:01 AM

Thank you for your help I no longer have the boot manager on my system. I knew about fdisk /mbr but the sys c: was new to me.
My thanks to you again.
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#5 User is offline   DanKick 

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Posted 01 April 2000 - 08:01 PM

SHS:

Can you explain what these commands actually do?
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#6 User is offline   SHS 

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Posted 01 April 2000 - 09:42 PM

The commands "fdisk /mbr" remove the master boot record & re-creates new master boot record so that the dos bootsector will boot up.

The commands "sys c:" make the drive bootable agine it all so know as bootsector.
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