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Windows XP remove from dual boot?

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by jon_w31

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I had windows 98 se and then installed windows xp professional to dual boot. Win XP installed it's own bootloader. I want to remove windows XP and leave win98 intact. If I format the xp partition will this also remove the xp bootloader. If not how do i remove the bootloader?

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by dmiles

Reference the following Microsoft Knowledgebase articles that may be of some help
See:Q314052 and Q103049

by saihib

If you don't already have one, create a Win98SE boot disk and boot from it. At the A:\> prompt type sys c: and hit enter. Once the operation is complete, reboot.

by mphoffar

Removing the partition will not remove it. You will have to just do a sys c: at a command prompt and that'll overwrite the boot sector so it's just loading 98 again.

You'll still have the files on the root of your C drive, the only one you'll want to concern yourself with is the boot.ini, which you'll want to delete if you want to do a dual boot again the same way you were before.

Good luck to you

Mark

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