Dual Boot not working!

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When I had to reformat this machine, I had a supposed expert do a dual boot
with Windows XP Home and Windows 98SE. XP works fine, but 98 has never
worked right, so I would like to eliminate the 98 part of this thing and
just have XP left. Is there an easy way to wipe out 98 without messing up
XP? I don't want to reformat the whole thing again.
Thanks, Ted
 
Remoted said:
When I had to reformat this machine, I had a supposed expert do a dual
boot with Windows XP Home and Windows 98SE. XP works fine, but 98 has
never worked right, so I would like to eliminate the 98 part of this thing
and just have XP left. Is there an easy way to wipe out 98 without messing
up XP? I don't want to reformat the whole thing again.
Thanks, Ted
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if you had win98 installed first *do not* format your C:
drive as the files needed to boot XP will still be loacted there...
however, from XP youmay delete everything there *except*
boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr

after that you may remove the win98 reference in boot.ini
 
Remoted said:
When I had to reformat this machine, I had a supposed expert do a dual boot
with Windows XP Home and Windows 98SE. XP works fine, but 98 has never
worked right, so I would like to eliminate the 98 part of this thing and
just have XP left. Is there an easy way to wipe out 98 without messing up
XP? I don't want to reformat the whole thing again.
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It's simple. Read this:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1645209,00.asp

The folder containing Win98 may be in the same partition
just under the root C: or it may be in another partition. If the
C:\boot.ini file contains lines under "[operating systems]" that
have "partition(2)" in them, another partition is involved.

*TimDaniels*
 
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