I are an idiot.

[Xaven]

So, I was dumb and installed Windoze 98 on another HDD of mine. Why'd I even bother if it can only run in 16 colors and 640x480 resolution? So I restarted and plugged my main HDD back in. However, when I rebooted, that stupid System Recovery thing that came with my littered install of XP popped up. And uh, all it does is hum around and soon ask me to pop in its CD (which I don't have and probably haven't seen in 3 years). Do you know why it would be doing this (appearing, instead of booting windoze XP)?

I had figured it might have been the same problem as I had before with GRUB, but running fixmbr on the command console of the XP setup CD didn't help. Wah. I really need to stop messing with these things. Thank you one and all for the consideration. :D

(Editra: Neither fixmbr nor fixboot from the recovery console helped, nor did unplugging the Win98 HDD)