Thanks for the assist.
Fdisk shows only one Primary, Active Partition.
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>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?

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