I cannot tell you folks how happy it makes me to say "It works!"
Thank you thank you thank you!
It wasn't without a few anxious moments, so I'm adding those comments
to save someone else a heart attack.
At 11:38 PM 3/8/04 -0500, Carroll wrote:
>Here's what you have to do:
>1. Create a new directory. (Let's call it BootDisk)
>2. Move or Copy WIN98SE.EXE to that directory.
>3. Click on WIN98SE.EXE and have it expand the file to BootDisk.
It took several attempts and combinations of left and right-clicking plus
the CTRL, ALT keys. Don't remember the exact combo, I just held my nose
and pushed buttons. I kept getting that crossed arrow/move cursor, but it
didn't grab anything and move it. Stuff somehow got moved...but I couldn't
reconstruct the episode to explain it.
>4. Put a blank floppy in the drive.
>5. Right click on the floppy icon on your desktop.
>6. Select "Format" from the menu.
>7. This will open a window. Make sure that "Full", "Display summary when
>finished" and "Copy system files" are selected, then press Start.
These diskettes are labelled as formatted, but it seems they got
reformatted to take all the files from that exe file. I clicked OK when it
asked me to Format, then just sat and watched it take over, figuring it
knew better than me.
>8. When the operation is completed, another window will appear. Select
>Close.
>9. Go back to BootDisk. Copy all of the files there except WIN98SE.EXE to
>the
>floppy.
I opened the floppy to see what was on the disk and sure enough, there were
all those command and sys files and a readme (which I read - a relatively
new thing for me, but highly recommended) and no win98se.exe file. Well,
I'll be darned.
>10. Shutdown and restart, booting to the floppy. It will take a while,
>because
>it has to set up a driver for you CD-ROM. (Kinda silly, because you don't
>need that, but that's the way the it is.) Then run fdisk /mbr. That
>_should_
>kill the dual boot.
After I chose to enable cdrom support - against a timer! - didn't know why
I needed to tell it that, but you'd mentioned something about cdrom, so I
went with it...
The restart takes you to the terminal interface, where you get to watch
your machine tell you stuff that you have no idea what it means, but it's
interesting nonetheless.
Now you get that lovely dos A prompt. And scramble to remember how to
input dos.
I was going from a printed text file of this email, and it wasn't obvious
there's a space between fdisk and /mbr . There is.
And now I'm booting to Windows.
Thank you so much,
Diane
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