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Thread ID: 50015	2004-10-07 19:00:00	Move o/s between partitions	Bryan (147)	Press F1

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279019	2004-10-07 19:00:00	How do I get around the following conundrum of having and keeping four partitions on the HD, and moving O/S from D: to C: C: has 98SE and D: has XP Home, the other two partitions are empty (HD size is 80 GB). I want to do away completely with 98SE and have XP on C:. I don't have a HD utilities disk and wonder if there is a simple method of achiving the above. Bryan.	Bryan (147)
279020	2004-10-07 19:16:00	Which OS did you install last? It's not really a good idea to be moving OS's around no matter what the latest wiz bang partitioning software says on the box, things will break. Re-assigning partition ID letters is easier and, if XP was the last OS installed (therefore controlling boot up) you can do it from Computer Management > Disk Management but expect some programmes (especially those installed under 98) to throw a fit. Best bet would be to back up data such as Office doc's then move it off any OS partition and do a clean install of XP on C:. Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
279021	2004-10-08 07:57:00	Y dont u just edit the boot.ini to boot in XP as default, then format c to get rid of win98. I dont think it really matters which partition your o/s is installed.	Blue_face (1148)
279022	2004-10-08 09:00:00	XP and 2000 put the bootloader on the C: partition, so formatting the C: partition isn't really a good idea, as you will end up with a system that you can't boot up into XP. If you did do that though, all you have to do is run the Recovery Console off the XP CD and run fixmbr and fixboot :)	wintertide (1306)
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