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Old 04-24-2005, 08:25 PM   #1
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Accidental Win 2k dual boot

I accidentally installed Win 2000 on a second hard drive partition on my computer. I was trying to copy the files to the primary partition, but somehow I ended up with a dual boot.

I deleted the files from the second partition, but unfortunately, now, when I boot, I am always asked to choose which installation of Windows I want to run. (only one works)

Any hints on editing this out of the boot sector so that I don't have to be asked this each time?
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Old 04-24-2005, 09:15 PM   #2
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Control panel, system, advanced, startup and recovery. Choose the one that works and uncheck the box to display list. Alternatively, edit the boot.ini file found in the root of C:
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Old 04-26-2005, 04:41 AM   #3
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Thanks, that worked great. I've had some other troubles with user accounts.
I started loading all my programs as a user in the Administrator group, and when I switched to a standard user, all my accounts and preferences changed. A new folder was created in the Docs and Settings, and the computer name was appended to the user name. Some of the programs I installed won't run as different users, so I want to use this user name, but the profile is now inaccessible. Any suggestions here?
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