A minor question (I think)

[Life36]

I am running Windows ME on my master HD, and I installed Windows XP on a partition on my slave HD. Everytime I start up, I get a screen asking what OS I want to use. Well, I straight up wiped my slave HD, and I'm guessing that I should have uninstalled XP or something to that effect before I did the wipe, because I still get a screen at startup asking what OS I want to use. Of course it doesn't work if you choose XP, but I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can delete that reference to XP and just get it to startup in Win ME without asking. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Web Gecko]

Hey there Life36

I hope it's treating you OK. What you are seeing with that multi OS menu at startup is XPs multi-boot setup (did you install XP Home or Pro on your slave HDD - my guess is Pro as I don't think Home creates the multi-boot thing - Pro is supposedly NT based and Home isn't I think) and it puts boot.ini in your C: primary partition.

Read the following old thread which relates directly to this situation. If you have a Me start floppy you can boot this
(according to Reboot) and :

1. fdisk /mbr
2. sys c:

After running these two commands in DOS you then remove your start floppy and reboot (that's life with Doze I guess ).
Now you should have no startup multi OS menu and should go straight into Me.

Read this thread as it will give you more info about all this.

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...ight=Web+Gecko

Take note particularly what reboot has to say and the info I pasted in from another thread on this subject (also from reboot).
Good ole reboot knows his stuff.

Anyway I hope this helps.

Let me know how you went.

cheers

The Web Gecko

[Life36]

Ahhh that worked great!

Much mahalos

Thanks for the info gecko