windows 2000 boot screen problem!!!

#1 chillie

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Posted 06 December 1999 - 01:07 AM

Hi guys. I have this slight problem. I installed Windows 2000 rc1,and it was working ok. But then I deleted and reinstalled. And the second time, it didn't recognize my sound card and Voodoo 2 cards, so I uninstalled it again (how do you unistall properly. ohh sorry, iI forgot to tell you that it dual boot on a win'98 partition) Any ways now when it goes into the boot screen ,where you can select what O/S you wanna boot into, it gives me one win 98 option , and like 4 lines for windows 2000, so my question is how can I get rid off the extra lines on the boot screen. It's awful to see so many lines. This is how my O/S boot screen looks:

windows 98
windows 2000
windows 2000
windows 2000
windows 2000
any one with helpful info. would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advanced.

#2 hteles

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Posted 06 December 1999 - 02:13 AM

You Have to Edit The File Boot.ini in the root directory and remove the duplicated entries

#3 Igor

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Posted 06 December 1999 - 09:57 AM

To edit it make sure u can see all Hidden and System files, UNCHECK read-only tag, open the file in Notepad and takeout the extra lines.

#4 KS-M

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Posted 07 December 1999 - 05:05 PM

I had the same problem, it was just:

Windows 98 (It wasn't installed at the time)
Windows 2000 (I just installed it)

I believe that it was because my boot-sector had some old traces of Windows 98 (well.. doh! ofcourse it had). Just do as they tell you at these posts, and your troubles are over.