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Old 10-23-2004, 03:04 AM   #1
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Dual boot to single

Hi All,

We have this machine at work dual booting Windows 98SE and Windows NT4. It has 2 hard drives. Windows 98 on the master drive and WindowsNT4 on the Slave drive. Just recently the system crashed and I've found out that master drive is causing the problem. Sooner or later this drive may not work anymore. My question is, is it possible to boot on Windows NT without reinstalling the system?
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Old 10-23-2004, 04:15 AM   #2
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yes but you will at least do a repaire of the mbr to work correctly
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Old 10-23-2004, 10:26 AM   #3
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Thanks bailey,
Can you point me out to a link or guide to do the task. I've been searching the net but I'm not lucky enough to find it.
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Old 10-23-2004, 10:33 AM   #4
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it should be as simple as removing the drive of the one you no longer want and then use the O/S cd to repaire the mbr,
I have not done it with nt4, but I belive it would be as if it were xp.
I know of no links to do that.
but it should be just a matter of running the nt4 cd for the repaire
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