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[Tom Thomas]

1) Ihave 98 installed on my celeron system with 256 ram.
one day i tried for xp. due to some reason installation was not complete.
Fine.
Can u guys tell me how do i remove the dual boot option?
Also recently i upgraded my system to ME.
So currently i have ME and do tell me what i should and should'nt do with
the files -> autoexec.bat, win.ini and similar ones in msconfig.


2) my friend has a P4 1.7 system with win98. his problem is that after he switches on the PC, after getting the windows welcome screen he finds a long path mentioned there. It is as follows,

C:\

C:\ SET PATH = C:\WINDOWS; C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\PROGRAM~1
\COMMON~1\AUTODE~1; D:\SQL\PROG~1\BINN.
C:\

He want to remove this. He says a similar line is present in

start ->run ->msconfig ->Autoexec.bat TAB.

There instead of C:\Windows; its %PATH% and the windows\command as stated above is not present here.

[bharathbala2003]

boot in win 98.. go to command.. and type

edit boot.ini

there ull have the path for the two OS's.. remove the line saying MS WIN XP.. and save it.. reboot now.. that option will b removed..

[enoonmai]

I hope you installed Windows XP on another partition than C:. To remove the dual boot option, first go into Windows Me, and then click Start>Run and type in

command

and press Enter to access the MSDOS Command Prompt.

Here, enter these commands

cd\
attrib boot.ini -h -r -s

Then quit the command prompt and go back to Windows Me, and then click Start>Run and type in

edit c:\boot.ini

It will open a Window that will look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

Copy the text that's listed under Operating Systems for Microsoft Windows (which is for Me), the multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS part and replace the text in the default that says:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS

with

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

Then change the timeout value from 30 to 0.

Save the file, close it, go back to the MSDOS command prompt and type in :

cd\
attrib boot.ini +h +r +s

Exit it and format the D:\ or whatever drive you installed Windows XP on.

As for your friend's case, hes seeing what he should see normally as the system parses the Autoexec.bat file normally. If you want to edit it, go to the MSDOS Command Prompt, type in

cd\
edit autoexec.bat

and then make sure the file begins with an
ECHO OFF
command, and then delete the
C:\PROGRAM~1
\COMMON~1\AUTODE~1; D:\SQL\PROG~1\BINN.
if you dont want it. But please do not delete the other C:\windows or C:\windows\command entries.

Save the file, close and exit. The next time you restart you shouldn't see such messages.

[rajkumar_personal]

@enoonmai

Thanks mate !

This one helped one of my friends out !