I installed WinXP to my second HD, "D:", and, inevitably, it set itself up
to dual boot with my C: Win98 install. It was a clean install, not an
upgrade. XP never worked right. There were a number of
hardware-recognition problems. The wors was that it didn't recognize my
network card, even after I installed new drivers. So, short of spending
time on the phone, couldn't activate it. I was then in the hospital just
long enough to go past the activation time limit. Still, with no network
access, why keep the OS? So, I want to get rid of it. I know I can just
reformat the partition since it is on a physically separate drive, but that
leaves the dual boot stuff behind.

My question is: How do I return boot control to Win98 without messing up my
current C: drive structure and data? I've seen a number of suggestions, but
I'm not at all certain of them. In particular I've seen two -- fdisk /mbr
to rebuild the master boot record and sys c: to recopy the system files.

Is either of these the right choice?

Is there something else, even if it's a separate utility?

Anyone have something definitive?

Many thanks in advance.