I recently added a extra harddrive to my win 2000 pc,
after I installed it booted fine. after I formatted it now it trys to boot to that drive. I found a boot.ini file, it shows both drives in there one is 0 and the other is 1 so I changed the order to select and still the same thing, so then I change the numbers to the first drive on both options and it created another option windows 2000 (default). it trys to boot to that now grrrr.
can I just delete the boot.ini file?
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Jump to PostJust edit boot.ini to correct the entries.
You don't need an entry in boot.ini for the second drive unless it has an operating system installed on it, and you would like the choice of booting into that OS or the other.
Assuming that the only OS you have …
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