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| Thread ID: 39087 | 2003-10-27 01:00:00 | Changing from Win98/XP dualboot to XP only | wintertide (1306) | Press F1 |
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| 186937 | 2003-10-27 01:00:00 | I have Win98SE and WinXP on my home PC on a 40GB drive. I want to make the PC have only XP on it but I don't want to reload XP if I can help it. The information on the Win98 partition is unimportant. I can use PartitionMagic 8 and shrink the Win98 partition down to only 1GB if all else fails. I'm assuming that as long as NTLDR and the other NT boot files are at the start of the drive it should be OK to do this? Any help appreciated. |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 186938 | 2003-10-27 01:57:00 | I think you need to edit your boot.ini to change the option at at boot to choose between the 2. Just format the partition with 98 on it and do what you want with it later in Partition Magic or in Control Panel > Computer Management > Disc Management (XP may be a little different, I have Win2k). Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 186939 | 2003-10-27 02:05:00 | Hi, You just need to edit your boot.ini file. You just delete the line that refers to Windows 98. Or if your a Novice, then you do this (Im using 2000) it might be slightly different on XP systems? Press (Windows Flag) + Pause Break on your keyboard Click Advanced Tab Choose "Startup and Recovery button. Select Windows XP on the list and uncheck the "Display list of operating systems" Or Click Start, click Run, and then type cmd. Type bootcfg.exe Check out bootcfg.exe /? for more options (switches) Yes your right about the NTLoader, boot files. As long as they still exist in your Primary Partition you will have no problems. |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 186940 | 2003-10-27 18:28:00 | > Hi, > > You just need to edit your boot.ini file. You just > delete the line that refers to Windows 98. Or if your > a Novice, then you do this (Im using 2000) it might > be slightly different on XP systems? > > Press (Windows Flag) + Pause Break on your keyboard > Click Advanced Tab > Choose "Startup and Recovery button. > Select Windows XP on the list and uncheck the > "Display list of operating systems" > > Or > > Click Start, click Run, and then type cmd. > Type bootcfg.exe > Check out bootcfg.exe /? for more options (switches) > > Yes your right about the NTLoader, boot files. As > long as they still exist in your Primary Partition > you will have no problems. My Neighbour has the same situation,Dual boot with Win ME/ XP home & he wishs to get rid of the Win ME which resides on C:\ Once the above procedures are completed Is it possible to use partition magic to merge the C: & D: partitions so that XP is where it belongs on C: ? Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 186941 | 2003-10-28 20:38:00 | Hmm... To be honest, I am not sure, as I have not tried this... I might try this in the future. |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 186942 | 2003-10-28 21:07:00 | I know that there's a drive letter redirect feature with PartitionMagic that will let you change the location that your program will look for files etc. but have not tried it. I have decided to wipe Win98SE off the first partition and resize it to about 5GB for all my MP3's and video files (all legally obtained off my own CDs mind you) and resize the XP partition. |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 186943 | 2003-10-29 00:49:00 | If the XP was installed to the D: partition, I'd be too frightened to try merging the partition with the C: one. :D I feel it would be a recipe for tears before bedtime. :_| It might be magic, but you'd probably need necromancy. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 186944 | 2003-10-29 00:57:00 | I agree with Graham. I would do properly formating the HDD and install XP on the C: drive. | Archibald (180) | ||
| 186945 | 2003-10-29 01:50:00 | I have to agree with GL too. If XP is D: NTFS and Win98 is C: Win32 you'd have a lot of problems. IT IS BETTER TO FORMAT, C: contains all the boot information, and just formatting that drive you won't have the boot files to boot XP from D: You can remove files from C: if you are just after space, you can safely remove everything except the files on the root. It's then just a matter of editing the boot.ini to not display a boot option at all. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 186946 | 2003-10-29 01:52:00 | Damn Windows is getting to me, FAT32 I meant. | Kame (312) | ||
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