I was going to reinstall Win2K but changed my mind halfway through. Now when I boot I'm offered the option of selecting my existing installation or the Windows Setup procedure, which I don't want. How can I remove those new setup files , please ? I don't want to damage my existing installation.

the setup option is initiated in the file named boot.ini. boot.ini is in the root of the home partition default is c:\boot.ini. boot.ini is a hidden file and windows settings will need changed to find it.

the change
windows explorer
menu bar
tools
folder options
view

uncheck the following
hide extensions of known file types
hide protected operating system files (recommended)

under hidden files and folders:
tic next to show hidden files and folders

click apply, click ok

boot.ini will open in noptepad. if you want, copy and paste the text in boot.ini in a post and i'll edit it for you.

as for the files i can't say for sure but they might be in a folder named i386. boot.ini may indicate where the setup files are located.

Hi Surfer, how you doin?

OK , here's the BOOT.INI

I guess its the 'Setup' entry that requires deleting but confirmation is always good. I'm not worried about the actual setup files. They'll get deleted when I clean up after removing the BOOT.INI entry, I believe.


[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"/fastdetect
C:\WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Setup"

Moono,

With Notepad, change your boot.ini so it matches this:



This will give you a one second menu with the choice.
Note that this will not delete the Setup content. You can try and manually delete C:\WIN_NT$.~BT but since that is a special folder name, be careful not to remove C:\WIN_NT (or C:\WINNT).

Google "windows boot.ini" to get more information about the Windows Bootloader.

ronald.

Thanks for that. There was an option to change the default boot so I used that. It now boots correctly but I'll attend to deleting the unwanted setup files shortly. Thanks again.