How to change booting order ?

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I have loaded win98 and winxp pro...as my OSes....no if i boot ....the first option i get is of winxp and the next is of win 98...now i want my win98 to be in the first place of the order!!!!

HELP PLEASE!!!

Thanks in advance!!!!

go to advanced tab in the my comp propreties

there in the startup and recovery
change the default OS in the drop down menu

and reboot !!!

solved !!!!

NO problem not solved cos....i can't find any startup recovery thingin advanced tab...help please!!!

do that from xp.

You can do it from the boot.ini file also:
Just Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then click OK.
On the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
Under System Startup, click Edit.
There must be 2 lines on your file similar to this:
default=multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

At the command prompt, type:
bootcfg /default /ID#
Where # specifies the boot entry id in the operating systems section of the BOOT.INI file to be made the default operating system
Savvy!

Make sure that u have a backup of the current boot.ini file in a floppy.

If u r not so very comfortable with editing boot.ini file, use a third party boot manager