Dual operating systems

[buddytod]

I would be grateful for advice on the following please....Scenario...I have Windows 98 installed. I want to install Windows xp on another drive. Then to be able to choose which os to boot from at startup. No problem with any of this so far. BUT, what happens when and if I want to delete Win xp. I would still be presented with a boot from menu on startup, even though Win xp had been deleted. How do I get rid of the boot menu please?

[Rick]

easy One

Boot from a boot floppy with win98 startup files on it.
Run "FDISK /MBR" from the command prompt
Then Run
"SYS c:\" from the A:\ prompt
It will transfer the win98 system files off the boot floppy back onto the c:\ drive
You can then delete the NTLOADER and it's related files
ntldr
ntdetect
boot.ini

[buddytod]

Thanks very much for a speedy and very clear reply to my question. Much appreciated!

[Budfred]

As usual, there is more than one way to do this. You can also edit the boot.ini file to take out references to WinXP. I think Rick's solution is more thorough though...