I have a AMD Athlon 1333mhz, 256ddram, 40gb and 16mb V3 3000 PCI. When I first got my comp from comp shop with like different parts. It wasnt a manufactured made PC so I couldn't get a boot disk. They put on Win2000Pro with NT but put all the stuff on the CD on my comp so when I installed XP I had all this other stuff. Now when I try to play some games it thinks I have Win NT.
Is their way to get rid of this or to create a boot disk. I tried doing complete Windows XP install but at the start of my comp it showed TWO operating systems.
So the main question is - How do I create a boot disk??

sorry if its to much.

Thanks - bye :)

Try the following:

boot to MS-DOS and type sys c: . This command replaces the Windows NT or Windows 2000 boot sector with the MS-DOS boot sector, and enables your computer to boot MS-DOS/ Win9x/Me/Xp. The following files are left in the root folder and should be deleted after you perform the sys c: operation:


Pagefile.sys
Boot.ini
Ntldr
Ntdetect.com
Ntbootdd.sys

After this boot from an XP boot disk - down load them from the following link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310994


Then after loggin on remove the following dir's:

Users
Winnt

you will find thes under the C: directoryu

Then this should be it.....................good luck

Or www.bootdisc.com or is it www.bootdisk.com one or the other.

Eraser, I have just thought of a quicker and easier way:


Boot WinXP and use Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup....
to set the default O/S to WinXP.
Open a Command/dos prompt and type:
attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini
Open c:\boot.ini in Notepad and remove the W2K line.
Delete the W2K folder (C:\Winnt).

:alert:Watch out with bootdisk.com Got a virus from a download there before!

Hey M8 gooner001
On your last posting...would that way be also for Win2K????

In what sense? To remove Win2K?

Sorry..M8 I'm talking about the create a W2k bootdisk

MarcMail, the easiest way is to go to this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q197063

you cannot use a XP boot disk for Win2000 as they are extremly different OS's they have totally different file structures and naming standards and have no compatibility, follow the instructions from the MS Website and you can't go wrong

Many many thanks to all of you. Ive just got net open so im gonna try it out tonight. thanks a bunch.




bye

That'll probably be the last we see of Eraser for a while then :laugh: