Re: Dual booting with Windows ME and Win 2k Pro

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From: Mike Pilat
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 03:12

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"Prashant Mullick" <pmullick@scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I setup my system for dual booting with Win2k Pro and ME. While playing
> with the settings, I manged to de-click the option in Startup and Recovery
> for Win2k which allowed me to choose the default startup OS. Now my system
> always boots into ME and doesnt give me a choice for chooing the OS.
>
> Anybody knows how I can change the setting in ME so it allows me to choose
> the OS while booting up?
>
> -prashant

If you hit/hold F8 before ME starts to boot you should get the menu, from
which you can boot into 2k and do the following:

right click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery
Settings -> Fiddle with the settings

Hope that helps...

[mp]

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