Try Again - Dual boot

8 Feb 2006 4:52 AM

Wayne Brown

I dual boot with WinXP & Win2000. WinXP is my primary OS. I have
gotten a nasty piece of spyware in WinXP and won't have time to deal with it
properly for a couple of weeks.
How can I change and have WIN2000 be my primary OS on boot-up? I have
tried changing the order in boot.ini but keep getting error messages.

8 Feb 2006 7:37 AM

Pegasus (MVP)

"Wayne Brown" <waynebr***@accesscomm.ca> wrote in message
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> I dual boot with WinXP & Win2000. WinXP is my primary OS. I have
> gotten a nasty piece of spyware in WinXP and won't have time to deal with
it
> properly for a couple of weeks.
> How can I change and have WIN2000 be my primary OS on boot-up? I have
> tried changing the order in boot.ini but keep getting error messages.

- What exactly are the error messages?
- What does your boot.ini look like?

9 Feb 2006 4:55 AM

Wayne Brown

Thanx for the reply, but someone answered my firts post. Problem solved.
I tried to delete this one but I guess you can't in newsgroups...

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> "Wayne Brown" <waynebr***@accesscomm.ca> wrote in message
> news:43e978ee$1@news.accesscomm.ca...
> > I dual boot with WinXP & Win2000. WinXP is my primary OS. I have
> > gotten a nasty piece of spyware in WinXP and won't have time to deal
with
> it
> > properly for a couple of weeks.
> > How can I change and have WIN2000 be my primary OS on boot-up? I have
> > tried changing the order in boot.ini but keep getting error messages.
>
> - What exactly are the error messages?
> - What does your boot.ini look like?
>
>

9 Feb 2006 5:10 AM

Pegasus (MVP)

The main problem is that you multi-posted your question.
This is a strict no-no as it wastes everyone's time. Use
cross-posting if you wish your post to appear in more than
one newsgroup.

The second problem is that you omitted most of the important
information from your post, e.g. error messages and the
contents of boot.ini. This leaves everyone guessing what
the problem might be . . .

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"Wayne Brown" <waynebr***@accesscomm.ca> wrote in message
news:43eacb11$1@news.accesscomm.ca...
> Thanx for the reply, but someone answered my firts post. Problem solved.
> I tried to delete this one but I guess you can't in newsgroups...
>
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.***@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:uKmJ5JILGHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "Wayne Brown" <waynebr***@accesscomm.ca> wrote in message
> > news:43e978ee$1@news.accesscomm.ca...
> > > I dual boot with WinXP & Win2000. WinXP is my primary OS. I have
> > > gotten a nasty piece of spyware in WinXP and won't have time to deal
> with
> > it
> > > properly for a couple of weeks.
> > > How can I change and have WIN2000 be my primary OS on boot-up? I
have
> > > tried changing the order in boot.ini but keep getting error messages.
> >
> > - What exactly are the error messages?
> > - What does your boot.ini look like?
> >
> >
>
>

8 Feb 2006 10:21 AM

Adriana Viola

Hi Wayne,

Did you try to change it via GUI?

-Right-Click on My Computer/properties
-Advanced tab/System Properties
-Startup and Recovery/Settings
-Select the default OS from the Default operating system

Can you tell me if doing it, you have the same error?

Regards,

Adriana
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"Wayne Brown" wrote:

> I dual boot with WinXP & Win2000. WinXP is my primary OS. I have
> gotten a nasty piece of spyware in WinXP and won't have time to deal with it
> properly for a couple of weeks.
> How can I change and have WIN2000 be my primary OS on boot-up? I have
> tried changing the order in boot.ini but keep getting error messages.
>
>
>
>

8 Feb 2006 10:27 AM

Dave Patrick

Answered in your post of yesterday.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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"Wayne Brown" wrote:
|I dual boot with WinXP & Win2000. WinXP is my primary OS. I have
| gotten a nasty piece of spyware in WinXP and won't have time to deal with
it
| properly for a couple of weeks.
| How can I change and have WIN2000 be my primary OS on boot-up? I have
| tried changing the order in boot.ini but keep getting error messages.
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