remove win 2000 boot manager

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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#35335 - 03/27/00 02:44 AM remove win 2000 boot manager
Rabscuttle Offline
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Registered: 03/27/00
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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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#35336 - 03/27/00 03:42 AM Re: remove win 2000 boot manager
CUViper Offline
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Registered: 01/23/00
Posts: 1120
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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#35337 - 03/27/00 03:52 AM Re: remove win 2000 boot manager
SHS Offline
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Registered: 07/16/99
Posts: 1245
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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#35338 - 03/27/00 06:01 AM Re: remove win 2000 boot manager
Rabscuttle Offline
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Registered: 03/27/00
Posts: 4
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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#35339 - 04/01/00 08:01 PM Re: remove win 2000 boot manager
DanKick Offline
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Registered: 03/22/00
Posts: 11
SHS:

Can you explain what these commands actually do?

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#35340 - 04/01/00 09:42 PM Re: remove win 2000 boot manager
SHS Offline
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Registered: 07/16/99
Posts: 1245
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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