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

[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)

 

[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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