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boot.ini file
Name: dj scotty Date: November 26, 2002 at 10:08:50 Pacific OS: 98 CPU/Ram: 667/128
Comment:
I have dual boot 98 and XP and now i want to go back to just 98, if i just delete boot.ini from windows 98 will my computer automatcally boot windows 98? I think the file was created when I installed XP
Name: Jizumonkey Date: November 26, 2002 at 10:29:59 Pacific
Reply:
have you tried editing it instead of just deleting it?
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Response Number 2
Name: dj scotty Date: November 26, 2002 at 10:41:23 Pacific
Reply:
not yet. I have read on the forums that it is not a windows 98 file. Deleting it seemed to be the easy soluton. I havent tried yet i'm still surfing forums.
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Response Number 3
Name: johnoh Date: November 26, 2002 at 11:10:28 Pacific
Reply:
No harm in renaming it and rebooting to see what happens. Worst case you have to then boot from a startup diskette and rename it back.
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Response Number 4
Name: lefty1 Date: November 26, 2002 at 12:22:15 Pacific
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Rebuild the Master Boot record by booting to a startup disk and typing "fdisk /mbr".
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Response Number 5
Name: Michael Date: November 26, 2002 at 16:18:48 Pacific
Reply:
Wrong on all counts. Nothing in the MBR points to either Win 98 or XP for booting. The MBR only looks for the ACTIVE partition and its boot sector to boot from. It is the boot sector that determines what is going to boot by looking for NTLDR or IO and MSDOS.sys. Renaming or deleting the boot.ini file will leave you with a system that will, at best, boot to XP only, at worst not boot at all. Editing the boot.ini file to remove the XP entry would still leave you with using the XP boot files - NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and boot.ini and because you are booting Win98, bootsect.dos.
A simpler solution would be to
sys a: c:
from a Win98 boot floppy. Providing your Win98 was installed on the C: drive originally.
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