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Changes the boot order in W2K

Updated 18. May 2008 - 20:25 by slvrvet

I started to reload W2K and had to stop because of a bad electrical storm -- now when I boot up my Dell Inspiron it automatically starts up on W2K install then gives me the blue screen of death.  I now have to do a hard shutdown (power off) restart and as I get to the boot screen I up arrow from the w2k install selection to the old (original) w2k application and all is fine.

Is there a program that will allow me to delete the w2k partial install or move the first choice start up file from the install to the old w2k program?

by andrews on 30. May 2008 - 1:06  (1364)

sometimes booting in safe mode and then rebooting will do the trick.

Andrew Seward

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by jason on 20. May 2008 - 4:12  (812)

To change the default install to boot there is a little file (open with notepad) called BOOT.INI

Windows 2000 Boot.ini Configuration Resources
How to edit Boot.ini in Win2000

If you need specific help - posting a copy of your C:\boot.ini file here will help.

The changes are very simple and should only take a few minutes to make.
by chris.p on 20. May 2008 - 3:14  (809)

Hi slvrvet,

There's only one question that needs to be asked here: did you back up your data?

If the answer is yes, then don't mess around, wipe the disk and start again. A messed-up install will never be any good; and it's no trouble to just reinstall the OS.

If you need data off the disk somehow (which I don't understand as you were reinstalling the OS), then get it off and wipe the disk. I wouldn't waste time messing around with a possibly corrupt Windows install - what's the point? Also, when you reinstall, don't do it over the top of an existing Windows instance. There are too many ways this can cause trouble. Get your data off and wipe the disk. If you're going to start from scratch, then do it properly. You can run FDISK from a boot floppy to do this; or from a boot CD if you have no floppy drive. Get to a command prompt, then call FDISK from its location, then select delete partition, then create a new one and format it. You need the correct instructions for this, there are about 23 steps. If you need it I'll give you a link.

Next time, image your disk as soon as you have installed the basic OS. Then add incremental images when you've added SP4 and some apps. It's free (apart from the CDs and/or USB disk you need for the image/s), and it means you can reinstall everything in one hit, super fast, with no trouble at all.

See the info here on this site for how to do it:

http://techsupportalert.com/dr/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm

chris.p
 

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