I inadvetently installed Win NT on a Win 98 machine which is now a dual boot machine. I tried to remove WIN NT. I looked under Win NT Disk Manager and see that the Win NT files are in C:FAT/primary drive and D: is a logical FAT drive with some applications/ data. Do I have NTFS Partitions? I tried to remove Win NT from the boot sequence by rebooting using the Win 98 boot floppy and attempted to replace the Win NT boot sector with by typing in the SYS c: command and got the message: " Sys cannot operate on target drive" So I've made Win 98 the first choice with '0' timeout vakue in Win NT: Control Panel/ System/Startup/ Shutdown tab. Now this Menu does not appear. What should I do next? 1) Can I delete Win NT folders using Win 98 Explorer to create some disk space: (Users, Winnt, Program Files, Recycled)? 2) Do I need to worry about removing Win NT from the boot sequence? (I don't particularly need Ntldr)

Are 98 and NT on separate partitions/drives? Some of your information doesn't sound correct. For NT & 98 to dual boot using NT's boot loader (which is what you appear to have), the boot sector has to be on a FAT partition (NT - NTFS & FAT, 98 - FAT32 & FAT, FAT's the only common denominator). So, sys C: from a win98 boot floppy should work. also, for this dual boot to be set up, 98 has to be installed first (on C:), but you say NT is on C: (so are both on C:?) If they are on separate partitions, you can remove all the files on the NT partition (unless its the partition with boot sector on it). If they're on the same partition, just remove the \winnt folder. You can boot just 98 from the NT boot loader by removing the entries for NT (but you'll need to leave ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini in the root of C:. Boot.ini should look something like:- [boot loader] timeout=30 default=C:\ [operating systems] C:\="Windows 98" Or you can try again to re-establish win98 boot sector with sys C: (note, if its still there I'd save msdos.sys first & restore afterwards. sys C: has a habit of leaving a minimal one which boots to a command promt). Hope this helps - but I suspect you've left out some of the story.

Steve - Now I can only load Win 98 and My Computer & Explorer reveal: C-local/FAT contains Win 98: Recycled, Program Files, Temp, Windows folders. D-local/FAT contains data; and there is also H-(Host for C) local/FAT; this contains Folders: Failsafe, Program Files, Recycled, Temp, Winnt and Files: Autoexec, Bootini, Command, Config,sys, Ntldr, Pagefile etc. I am planning to do the following: 1. Boot w/Win98 floppy and at the A prompt type "Sys H:". I don't know what saving and restoring afterwards "msdos.sys" means. 2. If I get the system transferred message, I would take the floppy out and re-boot. This should take me into Win 98 where I would delete all files in H: 3. Figure out a way of getting rid of H and adding the space to D (through Fdisk? I've seen the link from MS explaining Fdisk) As you can see I am a novice at this. Is this OK?

If you can only load win 98, you're on the way (sys C: must have worked). From your additional info, win98 is obviously on C: and NT is on H:. You don't need to sys H: (it will just write a win98 boot sector to the NT partition). You can remove everything from H: (unless there's stuff you want to keep) - its just the NT installation. Have you got a decent backup device (like Cd writer), because I think your best bet to get sorted is to backup & start again. All your partitions are FAT (which has max size of 2GB, and at that size wastes a ton of space). Is there other space (unpartitioned or used by something else on the disk?). To merge partitions (without data loss) you need a tool like Partition Magic (costs, if you haven't a copy). If you want just 98 on with an operating system partition & a data partition, I'd backup everything (if you can), then boot from win98 boot floppy. Use fdisk (with large disk support enabled) to remove all existing logical drives and partitions, then create 2 news ones (primary for win98, secondary & logical drive for data). These will be fat32. Reboot & format C:, then install win98. Reinstall all software, format D: from withing 98 and restore data. Just a suggestion. If backing up is a problem, if there's room temporarily for data on C: drive, you could copy it there and use fdisk from within win98 to delete D: and H:, and create new D: using all the space with FAT32. You caould also use win98's fat to fat32 converter to make C: fat32 (save space). Hope this helps and doesn't confuse.

Steve: The "Sys" command has not worked as I never got the "System transferred" message. The reason Win 98 loads directly is because I had made Win 98 the first choice with '0' timeout vakue in Win NT: Control Panel/ System/Startup/ Shutdown tab. Now the Boot Menu - giving me a choice of Optg systems -does not appear. So I do not have access to Win NT (I do not want Win NT). I am going to just clean out H (except the boot files)and use the freed space to store data. Thanks for your help.

Reformat, reinstall. Thank you, have a nice day.