RE: DBUG> OT Polterglitch

[Mike Johnson <mjohnson@grangerconstruction.com>]

At boot time have you chosen the 'windows 2000 install/repair' option to
see what it does. I think it only gives you this option if you did not
finish an install or a repair. When you did your repair with the Win2k
disk did it complete successfully? This may be why you have the
$WIN_NT$.~BT and $WIN_NT$.LS folders left on your hard drive. Can you
brief me on what you have done so far since your computer started giving
you problems?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bergman [mailto:bergman@cyberg.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:46 PM
> To: datacad-dbug@world.std.com
> Subject: Re: DBUG> OT Polterglitch
>
> 
> > > One other left over thing. Windows (2000) now asks me 
> during boot up 
> > > which operating system I wish to use and has a choice of windows 
> > > 2000, previous OS on C, or windows 2000 install/repair.  
> And I have 
> > > to be there to select option A within 15 seconds. Anyone 
> know how to 
> > > get rid of it? And how to get rid of polterglitches?
> >
> >I *believe* that this is because when you installed Win2K, 
> it kept the 
> >old
> >Windows on another partition, or it at least has another 
> boot sector.  I'm 
> >not sure how else to get rid of it other than doing the Windows 
> >installation over again without the extra partition.  It may 
> be that you 
> >could use FDisk or Partition Magic.
> 
> In my C: drive, I now see two new directories: $WIN_NT$.~BT with a 
> subdirectory called SYSTEM32, and $WIN_NT$.LS with a 
> subdirectory I386. I'm 
> betting those are related to this, but do I dare attempt 
> deleting them??
> 
> And Mike Johnson posted a different suggestion:
> 
> Go to Control Panal and choose the System icon. Click on the 
> Advanced tab and then the Settings button for Startup and 
> Recovery. At the top of the pop up window you will see 
> options for when your system starts. If you click the Edit 
> button you can delete the 2 you don't want to see just 
> leaving W2k. It should look something like this: [boot 
> loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> [operating systems] 
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 
> 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
> 
> What's your thought on that, Neil  (or anyone else 
> interested)? I'm very 
> gun shy right now.
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