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22782 2001-10-27 20:01:00 I had a prerelease version of Windows XP which I uninstalled to reveret back to W98se, I now get a dual boot message on start up giving me the choice of either W98 or XP and XP is the default, even though this is no longer installed. I have tried removing any reference to XP from the 'boot.ini' file and when i do that I get the error message '<windows root> system32\hal.dll' file is missing or corrupt, please reinstall?
Can anyone help, the team at Microsoft seem to be stumped on this, but they are looking for a solution.
Would appreciate some comments, thanks.
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22783 2001-10-27 22:48:00 hi Jim,

boot off the Win98 boot diskette. Type 'sys c:'
and press enter.
If that doesn't cure it then boot off the floppy again, switch to the c: drive then type 'fdisk /mbr'
Be careful with fdisk.
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