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Dual Boot message in dos remains....

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oLLie

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I have uninstalled win2k from my 98/2k dual boot but the screen still remains to choose an OS. I know I am supposed to do something with boot.ini and possibly something like remove ntlder, ntdetect, and bootsec.dos ??? But I need someone to hold my hand and walk me through it step-by-step 😱 anyone willing? Thanks a lot for your help, guys!

Ollie
 
Go get yourself a win 98 boot disk....boot into it. when you get the command prompt. type:

a:\>fdisk /mbr

that will delete anything you have in the boot record. Windows will naturally restore it. And if you only have windows 98 left, win 98 will restore a boot record. If it still doing that...then from the command prompt type:

a:\>sys c:

And you will give the harddrive a windows 98 a win98 sys files to boot up from...
 
I finally got around to trying fdisk/mbr and the boot message still remains, asking me whether to choose windows 2000 or windows 98. Am I suppose to delete some nt files or delete boot.ini? I tried sys c: after I did fdisk/mbr but it won't let me do that. Then I tried sys C:\ and it said required parameter missing. Advice, please? Thank you.

Ollie
 
copy sys.exe from your windows/command directory to a win98 system diskette. boot with the diskette and type "sys c:" from an a: prompt and hit enter.

a:>sys c:

after being sure the dual boot message does not show up, delete the files you mentioned.
 
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