hi, i have 2 hdds one with win 98 and one with xp, at the moemnt when i boot up i get the choice of which os i want to load , i didnt do anything to it it just does it, i jsut want the one with win xp in my machine though and every time i take the win 98 one out i get an error reading\writing disk error press ctrl alt del to restart. i have changed all the bios settings i tink, i.e the boot sequence. if the xp one is primary master it should be hdd 0 right? i have tried that and hdd 1 to boots and it still doesnt work!! anyone know how to remove the win 98 hdd with my otherone still working! its killing me!
cheers
ninja

does no one know?

If you remove a device while power is being fed to it you risk burning the transistors on your M/Board. Your XP may not be on a proper Primary partition and on a logical one instead. An OS can only load correctly from a Primary. You can tell this if you run FDISK or CHKDSK. the easiest way to get working is to boot from CD and reload XP or use the repair console in the installation files on the CD.

Copy ntldr, boot.ini & ntdetect to the hd with XP on (might work), you will have to edit boot.ini with correct drive/partition info.

I had the same dual boot thing when i had XP and 2000 installed, this is what i did:

Boot up in XP
Format HD with 98 on (2000 in my case)

At this point when i rebooted i still had teh dual boot screen - i coudl boot from XP but not from 2000

In XP go Start, Run, type msconfig and go to the boot.ini file, and there is a button saying soemthing test/check, cant remember exactly - click that - it'll find that the code trying to boot 98 is invalid (cos u've formatted the drive with it on) and it'll remove it, and boot automatically everytime with XP

Hope that helps m8