removing dual boot win98/WP Pro

[Guest]

I originally had win98 on the C Drive. I added a new drive (D) and installed XP Pro. The PC dual boots on start up and defaults to XP on the D drive. I'm having a problem with XP on the D drive. I believe I have some bad or missing files. Can I do a clean install of XP Pro on the C drive, migrate any necessary files from the D drive, and eventually reformat the D drive and just use it as a slave drive. The computer boots fine to the C drive now but when I go to XP on the D drive, after I log in and it loads personal settings, I just get the screen saver with no icons or task bar. I can run task manager, delete explorer.exe and then run explorer and the task bar and icons reappear, but the start-up programs haven't run and when I reboot the problem happens again. Thanks for advice on how to add XP to the C drive and/or with the XP problem.

 

[Jerry]

Try booting from the XP CD and do a repair install. This should 'fix' the
existing XP and save everything for you.

I originally had win98 on the C Drive. I added a new drive (D) and

installed XP Pro. The PC dual boots on start up and defaults to XP on the D
drive. I'm having a problem with XP on the D drive. I believe I have some
bad or missing files. Can I do a clean install of XP Pro on the C drive,
migrate any necessary files from the D drive, and eventually reformat the D
drive and just use it as a slave drive. The computer boots fine to the C
drive now but when I go to XP on the D drive, after I log in and it loads
personal settings, I just get the screen saver with no icons or task bar. I
can run task manager, delete explorer.exe and then run explorer and the task
bar and icons reappear, but the start-up programs haven't run and when I
reboot the problem happens again. Thanks for advice on how to add XP to the
C drive and/or with the XP problem.