XP nag

[racerxfactor]

i just installed windows 2000 on my computer. I later tried upgrading to Xp but later found out my mobo will not support it without a bios fix. So right now everytime i boot up my machine it'll give me two choices to go to 2k or xp setup. I'd like to get rid of the xp setup. how would i go about that ?

thanks in advance

[morriswindgate]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311578

My question is why dual boot with 2k and XP, both are basically the same with XP having a few more features. BUt from a software compatability standpoint you gain nothing. A more usefule dual boot would be 2k and 98se or xp and 98se. At least this would give you the ability to run older dos based software.

[Mac Medic]

I don't think he is trying to dual boot. He tried to upgrade and the upgrade went wrong, Now his boot manager is confused and is still looking for the setup disk to finish the upgrade. fdisk/mbr should do the trick. Personally I would do the bios flash and install XP from scratch and aviod the upgrade process entirely.

[racerxfactor]

well i tried making a boot disk with the bios that i got off the site. but when i boot it'll say "missing ntldr" . what's that?

[Markoman01027]

fdisk/mbr should do the trick, but also you can go into Windows 2K and alter the boot.ini file there. Just basically remove the line, or in device manager, under advanced, startup and recovery, and set the default operating system to Windows 2000.

[racerxfactor]

i went and did a repair on windows 2000 and it worked. i don't get the nag anymore but since then my computer has been really sluggish. and when i try to boot from floppy it'll still say missing ntldr

[racerxfactor]

i just finished formatting and installing 2k again and it still goes to that missing ntldr again. what else can i do ?

[DragonBreath]

You'll have to boot from the win2k cd.
To do this reboot and go into your BIOS
and set the first boot device to your cdrom,
then reboot. When you reboot you'll have to
watch your screen to see when it says "To
boot from cdrom hit any key" when that
comes up hit any key and let the win2k disk
load. When it is finished loading you'll have
a few choices to make. You want to choose
"To repair win2k installation with the recovery
console press R" Once this is finished loading it
will ask you wich instalation you want to repair.
Enter the number of the instalation and press
enter. Then it will ask for your administrator
password, type that here and hit enter. If you
did not enter an administrator password just
hit enter.

Once you are at the command prompt
"C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINNT" I forget wich with
win2k, type in FIXBOOT You'll be asked if your
sure you want to rewrite a new bootsector, enter yes.
This should replace your missing NTLDR file.

If this does'nt work you can put a copy of NTLDR onto
a floppy disk and copy it to the root of your C: drive or
whatever your boot drive may be. NTLDR can be found
in the i386 folder on your instalation cd.

Hope this helps you out.
db