My current system is multipartitioned with Linux, OS/w and XP Pro. I wrote
over the boot manager a year ago with the Windows boot sector and boots
directly to XP.

The original was 80 GB with 20 dedicated to XP.

I also have an identically configured system that I have not been using
and so used it for some experiments.

Using Diskpart, I removed all partitions except the XP, then I extened XP
to be all 80 GB. everything was still working OK and the C: partition
showed as 80gb.

It would not reboot. I think the step I missed was in rewriting the boot
sector.

Would someone help me with this last step? I don't want to do this to my
production system until I am confident it will be successful.

TIA

I want to upgrade to a 300 or so using the MaxBlast software supplied with

You deleted XP partition when you extended it.DiskPart cant extend the OS
partition with an OS installed,if it does,its wiped out xp....

"George W. Barrowcliff" wrote:

> My current system is multipartitioned with Linux, OS/w and XP Pro. I wrote
> over the boot manager a year ago with the Windows boot sector and boots
> directly to XP.
>
> The original was 80 GB with 20 dedicated to XP.
>
> I also have an identically configured system that I have not been using
> and so used it for some experiments.
>
> Using Diskpart, I removed all partitions except the XP, then I extened XP
> to be all 80 GB. everything was still working OK and the C: partition
> showed as 80gb.
>
> It would not reboot. I think the step I missed was in rewriting the boot
> sector.
>
> Would someone help me with this last step? I don't want to do this to my
> production system until I am confident it will be successful.
>
> TIA
>
> I want to upgrade to a 300 or so using the MaxBlast software supplied with
>
>
>