Booting problems after deleting XP from the E partition of a 98SE machine

[Guest thanatoid]

Hello

 

As an experiment, I installed XP Pro on my 98SE machine, and

after playing with it for a while, deleted it.

 

Anyone interested can read about this in 24hrsupport.helpdesk.

 

Anyway, I deleted XP, and the machine still gave me the "XP or

Windows" boot menu. Needless to say, unnecessary and annoying.

So I

renamed boot.ini as well as bootsect.dos (fortunately I was not

reckless enough to just delete them). Well, you know what

happened. So I booted from a floppy and brought those two files

back.

 

The question:

 

How the hell do I get rid of that boot menu, the two files in

root of C:\ and (/if/ in fact XP messed around with the MBR)

restore the MBR to normal (i.e. pre-XP) operating conditions?

 

I have 16 partitions on that drive so AFAIK, fdisk /mbr is not

going to do it, or cause other, more serious, problems.

 

I DL'd a couple of MBR/partition programs but they have no

option to rebuild the MBR, or even to SEE it.

 

I am lost.

 

Anyone, please?

 

 

--

[from a recent mental conversation]

 

thanatoid:

So why did you decide you wanted broadband after all your

endless babbling about how no one except DVD pirates really

needs it?

 

thanatoid:

My ISP is offering it for less than I am paying for dial-up now

AND the offer includes some other very attractive rate

reductions in the basic phone service charges. And I decided I

want to read my e-mail faster :-)

 

(to be continued)

[Guest GHalleck]

Re: Booting problems after deleting XP from the E partition of a98SE machine

 

Re: Booting problems after deleting XP from the E partition of a98SE machine

 

 

thanatoid wrote:

> Hello

>

> As an experiment, I installed XP Pro on my 98SE machine, and

> after playing with it for a while, deleted it.

>

> Anyone interested can read about this in 24hrsupport.helpdesk.

>

> Anyway, I deleted XP, and the machine still gave me the "XP or

> Windows" boot menu. Needless to say, unnecessary and annoying.

> So I

> renamed boot.ini as well as bootsect.dos (fortunately I was not

> reckless enough to just delete them). Well, you know what

> happened. So I booted from a floppy and brought those two files

> back.

>

> The question:

>

> How the hell do I get rid of that boot menu, the two files in

> root of C:\ and (/if/ in fact XP messed around with the MBR)

> restore the MBR to normal (i.e. pre-XP) operating conditions?

>

> I have 16 partitions on that drive so AFAIK, fdisk /mbr is not

> going to do it, or cause other, more serious, problems.

>

> I DL'd a couple of MBR/partition programs but they have no

> option to rebuild the MBR, or even to SEE it.

>

> I am lost.

>

> Anyone, please?

>

>

 

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