O/S selector annoying

[Glenn]

Ok i started to load xp onto my win98 computor but backed out. now when i turn my computor on it stops and ask's which operating system i want to boot up, xp or win98, how do you get rid of this message??? i tryed putting the xp disk back in and uninstalling all but no way. anyone got an idea. thanks

[jaclaz]

Set (if not already so) explorer to show hidden files.

In the root driectory of your C: drive you'll find a file called boot.ini.

Usually it is read only, change it to read/write, then open it in notepad.

You'll find something like:

[boot Loader]Timeout=5

Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT

[Operating Systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional IT" /fastdetect

C:\win98.dat="Windows 98 SE"

Edit it so that

Timeout = 0 (the default operating system will load with 0 seconds delay)

make sure that Deafult equals to the OS you wish to boot)

jaclaz

[tarquel]

Also worth mentioning here is that if you arent careful in yor editing, you can rendered the whole thing unbootable which may or may not be fixable (dependant on your skills).

Just a friendly note so edit carefully

Regards,

N.

[Glenn]

Thanks guys for all the help, i have been it that situation before but forgot just how to extract myself, got it going again with your help, thanks again.