looking 98 boot disk

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Recently upgraded from 98 to xp. It now wants the 98 boot
disk. When I use the boot disk it tries to load 98 but
does not. I do not want to use 98. I want my xp.
 
When are you getting that request? During the upgrade? Are you really sure
that it means the 98 boot disk and not the CD?

// Chen
 
Hi, Anonymous.

"It" now wants the 98 boot disk? Please define "it".

WinXP should never ask for the Win98 boot disk or CD after the upgrade
installation is complete. Unless, of course, you upgraded in such a way
that you can, if you like, revert to Win98.

Perhaps some application or utility that you are running is asking for
Win98.

If you do boot from a Win98 boot disk, it will NOT boot WinXP. In fact, it
cannot access any hard drive volume formatted NTFS. If you (intentionally
or not) created a dual-boot system (by clean installing WinXP alongside
Win98, rather than upgrading from Win98 to WinXP), you should be able to
boot into Win98 by choosing that system from the boot menu, but it would not
ask for the boot floppy.

Please tell us exactly how you get the message that asks for the Win98
disk - and exactly what that message says.

RC
 
It sounds like during the upgrade you actually created a Dual Boot setup.
When a dual boot setup is created you will see a menu screen when the
computer is started that asks which operating system you want to start -
Windows 98 or Windows XP (in your case). Your problem can happen quite
easily if you have an OEM version of XP and ran it from Windows 98. OEM
versions can not upgrade and can only perform new install. It is easy to get
a dual boot setup happening.

If you can boot into XP then edit the boot.ini file right clicking My
Computer and go to Properties->Advanced Tab->Start-up and Recovery section
setting button. Click the Edit button and remove the line that references
Windows 98.

If you can't boot to XP then likely the easiest route will be to reinstall
XP using the instructions found here
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm
 
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