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Guest MedRxman
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I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE and

Win Pro

 

The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed

 

The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F

 

D drive has windows XP Pro

 

I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and eirhter

clone

the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon

partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D drive

and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it for

storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard drive.

 

What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the

suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?

 

Thanks in advance

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Guest Rich Barry
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Re: Dual Boot

 

If your intention is to get rid of the dual boot and Win98SE, I would

partition the first drive using fdisk and that will destroy

the Win98OS. I would leave the second drive as is and just do a Repair

Install of WinXP. Check at Michael's site for more

info. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

 

"MedRxman" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:OJHMVtXyHHA.5204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE and

> Win Pro

>

> The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed

>

> The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F

>

> D drive has windows XP Pro

>

> I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and eirhter

> clone

> the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon

> partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D

> drive

> and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it for

> storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard drive.

>

> What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the

> suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?

>

> Thanks in advance

>

>

>

>

Guest MedRxman
Posted

Re: Dual Boot

 

I want to maintain a Dual Boot.

 

I want both OSs (win98SE and WinXP Pro) on the same Hard Drive and ability

to dual boot.. Currently Win98 is on one hard drive and WIN XP is on the

second hard drive.

 

"Rich Barry" <rbarry@socal.rr.com> wrote in message

news:469ebeef$0$4691$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...

> If your intention is to get rid of the dual boot and Win98SE, I would

> partition the first drive using fdisk and that will destroy

> the Win98OS. I would leave the second drive as is and just do a Repair

> Install of WinXP. Check at Michael's site for more

> info. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

>

> "MedRxman" <medrxman@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> news:OJHMVtXyHHA.5204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE and

>> Win Pro

>>

>> The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed

>>

>> The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F

>>

>> D drive has windows XP Pro

>>

>> I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and

>> eirhter

>> clone

>> the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon

>> partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D

>> drive

>> and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it for

>> storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard drive.

>>

>> What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the

>> suggested way to accomplish what I want to do?

>>

>> Thanks in advance

>>

>>

>>

>>

>

>


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