Win2000/Win 98 Dual boot question

[GT98]

I just got done setting up a machine in work with Win2000 on a extra hard drive with Win98 on the orginal HD. The problem I have is that I had to give the computer back to another office and now its stuck with the choice of booting between win2000/win98 and I took out the other hd that had win200. Is there anyway to take out the dual boot screen that comes up so that it goes directy into Win98?? I poked around the MSdod.sys file but I couldn't modifiy it.

Thanks

Scott


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[Chucky Cheese]

...try this...take a bootable win98 disk and put fdisk(..win98 version) on it...boot up on this disk and run fdisk /mbr...this will overwrite nts' boot sector. then erase from the root of your remaining drive these files -- arcldr.*, ntdetect.*, boot.*, ntldr.*, cmldr.*(..if present) and arcsetup.*(..if present).

that ought to do it!

chucky

[Chasbo]

http://www.budja.com/w2k/uninstall_w2k.html

[CHHAS]

You can do the Fdisk /mbr trick, but as far as I remember it will kill all your extended partitions so you need to be prepared for that

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[This message has been edited by CHHAS (edited 16 May 2000).]

[The PIT]

Make a bootable floppy disk from Windows 98 and then copy sys.com onto it. Boot from this floppy and then type sys c:.

[Jammrock]

You shouldn't have to run fdisk /mbr. Just doing a combo of what everyone else said should work:

1) Make a Win98 boot disk with sys.com on it.

2) Boot using the disk.

3) Delete "arcldr.*, ntdetect.*, boot.*, ntldr.*, cmldr.*(..if present) and arcsetup.*(..if present)" and any other file in the C: root that starts with NT. Some of these files will be Read-Only/System files so you will need to use the DIR /A command to see them all and the ATTRIB <filename> -s -h -r to be able to delete them.

4) After the files are all deleted, run SYS C: to change the boot sector back to the standard Win98 only boot mode.

That should cover it.

Jamrock

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[Technoid]

Fdisk /MBR Does not remove/destroy any extended/logical dos partitions!

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[Paddy]

Sys A: c:
then modify the msdos.sys to remove the boot option