How do I avoid getting Boot-choosing

[siamak]

I have re-instsalled windows 2000 on my PC. As windows 2000 was installed on my PC beforehand, I did FORMAT my PC (but not UNINSTALLED if). Now every time I turn my PC, it asks me which operating system I want to boot. Selecting the first one, does not work (obviously).
Now, How do I remove this message?;) ;)

[Paul Komski]

If you are getting a dual boot message at start up it sounds as if the active partition was in fact not formatted since the original entry is still there.

In any case the "easy" part is to remove the relevant line from your boot.ini file. Boot.ini should be found in the root of the boot partition (and may be a hidden file).

My guess is it that it should look similar to:

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=30
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT. 001
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT.001="Windows 2000" /fastdetect

You would open it in Notepad and just remove the line that points to the non-booting OS. Just be careful that you remove the correct one since when only one line exists under [Operating Systems] and this line has the same partition and Windows folder specification as the Default value there will be no choice presented to you at boot up (and which is what you want to achieve). With no choice you will have an unbootable system if you remove the wrong line.

Suggest first editing the part inside inverted commas on one line so that both lines look different and then reboot to check which is the one you want to permanently remove. In the above example you might change one of the entries to read "Windows 2000 BAD" to distinguish between the two lines that you see in the boot menu at startup. Once you confirm you cant boot into that entry but can into the other one it should be safe to remove the non-bootig line.