Dual booting, lets eliminate 98SE

[olrac]

O.K, here's the plan. I am dual booting Win98SE and XP Professional(full not upgrade version) on one of my machines. I really do not see a need for 98SE anymore so I would like to get rid of it all together without having to reinstall XP. When I originally installed XP I installed it as an new install in drive D which is my second partition, 98SE is on my first. Both are fat32 file systems. Now if I created an image(Ghost) of my D drive(XP fat32) and ghosted that to my C drive then formatted D drive to eliminate the original xp installation, will my system boot as if XP was now the default operating system? After all, my bios searches for a boot record in C drive first and now the C drive has XP installed. Keep in mind that at start up I have the choice of booting into either 98 or xp and I'm assuming that boot record is in C drive, correct me if I'm wrong. Has anyone done this? Please let me know if you have, it would save me a lot of time.

 

[papasmurf]

get partition magic, erase the windows 98se partition and just give the space back to the xp partition. the only thing is that windows could try to boot from a partition that does not exist in which case... just reformat the thing and install it again good lord it takes an hour! lazy people...

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[olrac]

Thats exactly what I did, no fooling around, just reformatted it and got it over with.

 

[vagabond]

I would do a clean install. That's the best way. Also ensures a stable system.

Another thing I forgot to mention, I've got a 900 Athlon /w 512SDRAM PC133 and a 5400 20GB Seagate HD and from format to the windows desktop takes a little over 40 minutes. Oh, also a 48X CDROM drive.

<font color=blue> You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink it!</font color=blue><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by vagabond on 12/07/02 03:22 PM.</EM></FONT></P>