At 08:45 PM 2/28/2004, you wrote:
>A friend has inherited a Dell XPS which is set up to dual boot to NT and
>Win98. How do I go about eliminating the  NT choice, which he doesn't want
>or need?

How is it installed ... is Win98 and NT4 installed on the same partition?
Or is 98 on C:> and NT on something else, maybe even a NTFS partition?

To get rid of the boot choices, and disable NT4, delete these files in the
root directory of C:\
Ntldr
NTdetect.com
Boot.ini

You can do this while in Win98 although you have to enable "show all files"
and individually change the attributes of the files by removing the
"hidden", "system" and "restricted" attributes.

Next boot off a Windows 98 boot floppy, or start up disk
Make a path to windows and sys the C drive

a:>Path=c:\windows\command
sys c:

This will over write the MBR, removing NT
Now the computer can not boot NT4, and you can just delete, or format, the
partition it is installed on.

However, If NT4 is installed in the same partition that Windows98
is,  remove these folders,
:\ Winnt
:\Documents and Settings

There is other stuff in the :\Program Files> folder but unless you know
what you are deleting, I would just leave it alone, because you could
inadvertently delete something for Win98, or one of it's programs, and
leaving old NT4 stuff in there won't cause any harm.

Rode
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