Installed w2k on seperate physical hard drive (d:, seagate 2.1 GIG). Loaded wrong (win98)modem drivers and system was wacked. Formatted the D: drive and attempted to reinstall w2k. Rec'd message that could not upgrade because I had 2 OS's. Of course, attempting to boot to w2k brought me to the error screen of no return teling me I had some needed files deleted. I really don't want to format c: but that has to be where the dual boot option message is coming from. System: DFI Motherboard, AMD K6-3 400, 160meg SDRAM, c:samsung 6.4GIG, D:Seagate 2.1GIG, generic soudn which w2k picked up, Matrox video was detected also. Any help appreciated, requests for additional info replied to. Thank You!

Boot to a Win98 boot disk. From C prompt, format D. Reboot, again to Win98 boot disk, with CD-ROM support. Go to E: drive (CD-ROM), type "cd i386", type "winnt" and reinstall W2KP to D drive. This should allow you to do a fresh install without touching the C drive. Otherwise, you can boot to Win98 boot floppy, go to c drive and edit boot.ini. Just modify the default line by replacing the part about Windows 2000 and replace it with the statement about C: Windows. If you have any questions, email me.

Different idea: Boot a DOS-Bootdisk (W98 Disk) and type "sys c:". This command copys DOS system files (command.com, msdos.sys io.sys) and writes a new boot sector. After that you can delete the NT bootfiles (ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini...), but I think you can leave them as well. There should be not bootmenu and no option to boot to the old W2K. Just W98 as it was before. Maybe that's enough to reinstall W2K. Hope that helps Idefix