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Old December 7th 04, 09:07 AM
Dhuri
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Dear Friends,

I had two operating systems windows 2000 and windows 98 running on my PC.
Recently my windows 2000 system crashed. Earlier , while start up windows
2000 was my default start up system. I had given option of 5 seconds to
switch over between the operating systems.
Now I have to remain alert while start up. How can I change the default
start up to windows 98.
In windows 2000 it was easy. In this under system properties I have to
select ‘advanced ‘ tab then press ‘Startup and Recovery’ button. A dialog box
appeared in which I had to select default operating system.

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Old December 7th 04, 09:21 AM
Gary S. Terhune
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I believe you should have a boot.ini file in C:\ in your Win98. You can
designate the default boot system there.

"Purpose of the BOOT.INI File in Windows 2000 or Windows NT"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99743

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"Dhuri" wrote in message
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Dear Friends,

I had two operating systems windows 2000 and windows 98 running on my PC.
Recently my windows 2000 system crashed. Earlier , while start up windows
2000 was my default start up system. I had given option of 5 seconds to
switch over between the operating systems.
Now I have to remain alert while start up. How can I change the default
start up to windows 98.
In windows 2000 it was easy. In this under system properties I have to
select ‘advanced ‘ tab then press ‘Startup and Recovery’ button. A dialog box
appeared in which I had to select default operating system.


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Old December 9th 04, 11:12 AM
Dhuri
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Dear Gary,
I tried to modify the boot.ini file specifying more time of 30 seconds but
while modifying further I deleted windows 98 booting. Now while booting my PC
boots to windows 2000 which is not fully functional.
I pressed F8 and tried to activate to startup menus. But when I press the
option of command prompt it again goes to windows 2000 boot .
My floppy drive is not working. I have a CD-writer working but when I try to
boot from a bootable CD , my computer hangs on.
Now , how can I get command prompt and start the computer?


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

I believe you should have a boot.ini file in C:\ in your Win98. You can
designate the default boot system there.

"Purpose of the BOOT.INI File in Windows 2000 or Windows NT"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99743

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Dhuri" wrote in message
news
Dear Friends,

I had two operating systems windows 2000 and windows 98 running on my PC.
Recently my windows 2000 system crashed. Earlier , while start up windows
2000 was my default start up system. I had given option of 5 seconds to
switch over between the operating systems.
Now I have to remain alert while start up. How can I change the default
start up to windows 98.
In windows 2000 it was easy. In this under system properties I have to
select ‘advanced ‘ tab then press ‘Startup and Recovery’ button. A dialog box
appeared in which I had to select default operating system.



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Old December 9th 04, 01:05 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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This is a question for Windows 2000 newsgroups. Sorry.

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"Dhuri" wrote in message
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Dear Gary,
I tried to modify the boot.ini file specifying more time of 30 seconds but
while modifying further I deleted windows 98 booting. Now while booting my PC
boots to windows 2000 which is not fully functional.
I pressed F8 and tried to activate to startup menus. But when I press the
option of command prompt it again goes to windows 2000 boot .
My floppy drive is not working. I have a CD-writer working but when I try to
boot from a bootable CD , my computer hangs on.
Now , how can I get command prompt and start the computer?


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

I believe you should have a boot.ini file in C:\ in your Win98. You can
designate the default boot system there.

"Purpose of the BOOT.INI File in Windows 2000 or Windows NT"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99743

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Dhuri" wrote in message
news
Dear Friends,

I had two operating systems windows 2000 and windows 98 running on my PC.
Recently my windows 2000 system crashed. Earlier , while start up windows
2000 was my default start up system. I had given option of 5 seconds to
switch over between the operating systems.
Now I have to remain alert while start up. How can I change the default
start up to windows 98.
In windows 2000 it was easy. In this under system properties I have to
select ‘advanced ‘ tab then press ‘Startup and Recovery’ button. A dialog

box
appeared in which I had to select default operating system.




 




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