Re: Booting problems after deleting XP from the E partition of a 98SE machine
- From: GHalleck <ghalleck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:26:20 -0700
thanatoid wrote:
Hello
As an experiment, I installed XP Pro on my 98SE machine, and after playing with it for a while, deleted it.
Anyone interested can read about this in 24hrsupport.helpdesk.
Anyway, I deleted XP, and the machine still gave me the "XP or Windows" boot menu. Needless to say, unnecessary and annoying. So I renamed boot.ini as well as bootsect.dos (fortunately I was not reckless enough to just delete them). Well, you know what happened. So I booted from a floppy and brought those two files back.
The question:
How the hell do I get rid of that boot menu, the two files in root of C:\ and (/if/ in fact XP messed around with the MBR) restore the MBR to normal (i.e. pre-XP) operating conditions?
I have 16 partitions on that drive so AFAIK, fdisk /mbr is not going to do it, or cause other, more serious, problems.
I DL'd a couple of MBR/partition programs but they have no option to rebuild the MBR, or even to SEE it.
I am lost.
Anyone, please?
IIRC, and hopefully not omitting any steps, first boot the computer
with the Windows 98SE startup diskette or a Windows 98SE boot diskette.
From the A:\> prompt, type "Sys C:" (minus the quotes) and Enter. This
should exchange the NT/2000/XP boot sector for one for MS-DOS/Win9X.
It is needed to assert command.com in the root, followed by Win98SE's
config.sys file and Win98SE's autoexec.bat file (hopefully). Bringing
back memories of pre-Windows NT/2000/XP setup?
.
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