Hello. I have two copies of Windows 2000 on my PC, only one of which I can successfully boot to. At startup when the screen comes up asking which operating system I want to boot to, I arrow down to the second line and hit "enter".
I would like to remove the copy of W2K that is referenced on the first line of that screen.
Here is what the boot.ini currently looks like:

[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="Microso ft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

After doing some research, including previous posts here, I'm pretty sure I can change the boot.ini file to remove the choice for the unusable operating system on the first line "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Micros oft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect" so that the default OS will be the one on the lowest line.
I double checked which one was actually running by "Start/Run/%windir%" and that told me that it was C:\Windows and not C:\WINNT.

Sorry for this long winded preamble, but my questions are: 1) Do I also need to change the line in boot.ini from "default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT " to "default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDO WS" and 2) Can I safely delete the C:\WINNT folder after making that change subsequent to ensuring that it works?
Also, is there anything else I should be thinking about?

I have already saved a copy of the current boot.ini. file in case of problems.

Thank you for your help.

Here is Microsofts page:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311578

Windows 2000 is usually WINNT and not WINDOWS but if you are sure that you are using WINDOWS I would say yes change the Default and delete the other.

As noted in the Microsoft page save backups before editing.

Thank you.

No problem. Let us know how it goes.