I have a dual boot, dual hard drive, FAT32 system, with Windows 98 on Drive
0 - Partition 1 (C), which also contains a second partition - D (shared
files and folders), and Windows 2000 SP4 on Drive 1 Partition 1, set as
drive E, with a second partition labeled drive F (used to store backups).
The first hard drive is twice as large as the one contain Windows 2000.
My current drive letter assignments are C (boot drive and original Win98
installation), D (files and folders shared by both OS's), E (Windows 2000
Program Files and System files), and F (Windows 2000 CD installation and
SP4 files and system backups).
I no longer use or update Windows 98, and have all of my current programs in
the Windows 2000 hard drive (E), which is running out of space. I would like
to relocate Windows 2000 onto the first hard drive, where Windows 98 lives,
delete Windows 98, and use the smaller hard drive for file storage, instead
of for OS and program files.
Which of these options is less painful and most likely to succeed?
1: Upgrade Windows 98 to 2000 (Yuk!) and reinstall every new program and
device driver (almost 100), then update Windows 2k and IE 6 to current patch
levels (already done in W2k installation)?
OR
2: From a Win98 boot, use Partition Magic to shrink partition C and move
it's free space to the end of the drive, past the D partition, then create a
new partition in the free space, letting Windows 98 assign the next
available drive letter to it (G - I'd guess).
2a: Copy everything from the Drive E Win2k Program Files and Winnt
folders into the new partition.
2b: Disconnect the second hard drive (with Windows 2000) from the IDE
controller. Boot into Windows 98 again and verify that the new partition is
now listed as Drive E (it should be as it follows boot partition C and
secondary partition D).
2c: Edit Boot.ini to point to Windows 2000 on Drive 0, Partition 3,
instead of Drive 1, Partition 1.
2d: Boot into Windows 2000 (hopefully!), which still exists in a drive
letter E, although it is no longer a separate hard drive
2e: Delete the unwanted old Win 98 Program Files and Windows
directories from C and defrag
2f: Shrink boot partition C to it's minimum required size with the
bootfiles and pagefile, then move and distribute the newly freed space into
the D and E (W2k system files) partitions?
Thanks in advance
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