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First post, by Baoran

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I had win98se installed on the first hard drive and I tried installing winXP on second hard drive but the installation failed and the winxp will hang during loading the OS.
I would like to remove the winXP from the second hard drive and remove the boot menu from the first hard drive that I could just boot to win98se like I used to. I would prefer not to have to reinstall win98se.
Anyone knows how to remove the boot stuff that winxp installation did put on the first hard drive?

Reply 1 of 3, by dr_st

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My guess is that if all you want is just to get Win98 to boot and remove any traces to XP, then SYS C: from a Win98 boot disk should be enough.

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Reply 2 of 3, by gca

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I was going to suggest fdisk /mbr which would have roughly the same effect.

Reply 3 of 3, by Baoran

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Thank you for the help. Sys command worked fine. I didn't realise that win98se came with it's own sys.com and it was that simple.

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