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selecting startup operating system
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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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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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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This is a question for Windows 2000 newsgroups. Sorry.
-- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Dhuri" wrote in message ... 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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