disk repair w/ XP?

I recently noticed that there does not seem to be any sort of disk repair
utility w/ XP.

I have a HP desktop PC w/ W98 that will not boot up. It goes straight into a
DOS version of ScanDisk, and when it identifies errors in the boot sector
and asks me whether I want to skip, fix, or whatever, it doesn't respond to
the keyboard. I was able to take the HD out, put it into a USB external
case, plug it into my laptop (which has XP Pro) and I can read files from
it. I noticed that there is no ScanDisk w/ XP. I ran Disk Defrag and there
did not seem to be any options for fixing errors during defrag like there
were w/ W98.

My question in a nutshell is: Is there a way for me to repair the errors in
the boot sector on this HD w/ it plugged in as an external drive to my XP
laptop (something like scandisk for XP) and then put it back into the other
computer and have it boot up normally?

Otherwise I assume the only option is to reformat the drive w/ the laptop,
in which case I would imagine that the bad sectors would be marked bad and
would not be re-used. In the meantime I would just have to rescue whatever
data I could using the external case and the laptop.

Then the other question is that the laptop uses NTFS. Can I install W98 on a
NTFS drive or would I need to have the option to format it FAT32 (and does
XP offer that option)? I have a legal copy of W98 for the desktop machine
and that would be the way to keep everything legal. I have a system restore
disk that will install W98 and all the stuff that the computer came with on
bootup (supposedly). I don't mind using W98 on that machine. The only real
reason I want to resurrect it is to run a copy of PhotoShop 7.0 with
ImageReady because it is a better program for web design than PhotoShop CS3,
which I have on the other machine.

Thanks



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