Editing boot.ini

shayser

I need to be sure before I make any more changes.

I had 2 logical drives on a windows 2000 pro machine, C: and

I needed to drop and recreate D so I moved everything from the drive and then deleted the partition.

Disk management said do this



so I did.

Boot.ini after reboot

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

There's no OS on (1) and I have to manually select (2) at bootup, though this is the first in the OS choices.

Just need it to boot straight to windows.

Cheers.

Mountjoy Mugger

[boot loader]
timeout=5
[operating systems]
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

^^^ should do the trick, and only 5 seconds of a wait.

seamus

You can also set the timeout to 0, meaning no wait.

Mountjoy Mugger

Meh, I just knew someone would be along to say that!