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Restore Win98 boot from dual boot
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. |
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