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How to get rid of linux boot loader in Multi Boot Windows opearting systems

I have two hard drives with windows 98, windows 2000 prof, windows xp installed on the master drive and windows 2000 server, Red Hat linux 8.0 installed on te slave (secondary) drive. Red Hat Linux was the last to be installed. Now, I want to remove the secondary  drive and use it on a different machine, so, whenever, I am booting the machine with only primary drive, I am getting the GRUB HARD DISK ERROR. How can I fix this problem ?
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Boot to a Windows 98 Boot disk (if you don't have one, download it from www.bootdisk.com) and then run:

ATTRIB -R -S -H MSDOS.SYS
COPY MSDOS.SYS MSDOS.BAK
SYS C:
ATTRIB -R -S -H MSDOS.SYS
COPY MSDOS.BAK MSDOS.SYS
ATTRIB +R +S +H MSDOS.SYS

Reboot.

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