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Need to get rid of startup error: Please select the operating system to start

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Re: Need to get rid of startup error: Please select the operating system to start

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Dec 3rd, 2003
What happened was that XP setup wrote a new boot sector, pretty much erasing any existence of a plain vanilla 98 installation.

You can't really do anything about it other than format and start over, along with an fdisk /mbr before you reinstall 98.
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