Dual-boot to single boot

[Scott]

I currently have a dual-boot system ... Win 98 on C:, and
XP on D: (separate drives). D: is formatted NTFS, C:
FAT32. I no longer use WIN98 on the C: drive, and would
like to get rid of it and the dual-boot, and reformat C:
to the NTFS for use by XP. I want to keep the XP install
on D: as it is a faster, newer drive, and use the C: for
data files. Any way to do this without having to re-
install XP?

 

[bhisham]

the thing you have to do is select c:\ drive (seperate
partition) during installation from dos mode.
in windows mode selelct advance option during setup wizard
of windows xp

 

[Mark Salloway]

Hi
What you can do is boot into XP and delete all files on Drive C appart from
the following (Which are required to start Windows XP, some of these are
hidden system files)

[In the root of drive c]
BOOT.INI
NTLRDR
NTDETECT.COM
PAGEFILE.SYS
HIBERFIL.SYS (Exists if hibernation is enabled)

Open c:\Boot.ini and remove the line which refrences Windows 98 e.g.
(C:\WINDOWS="Windows 98"). Then you can use the convert command to change
the C drives file system to NTFS. I would recommend reading the following
site before attempting to convert
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Hope you find this of use