removing dual boot

[Tricia]

Hi at present my computer is dual booting with my 40GB hard drive
partitioned in 2 with win 98 on C: and win XP on D: I have slowly replaced
the old programs and peripherals so that now I no longer need to have Win
98. I therefore want to completely remove Win 98 from C: and replace it with
Win XP so that Win XP is on C: and then unpartition the hard drive so that I
only have one partition.
I know that I can change the boot.ini file so that there is no menu choice
but that is not what I want because I also have a 120GB hard drive that I
eventually want to put into my computer and replace the 40GB hard drive. I
also know that I could start from the beginning and do a fresh install of
Win Xp on the new hard drive but after spending months getting this computer
set up the way I want it I do not want to do that. What options do I have?
I also realise that changing the drive from D: to C: could cause problems
with file locations so I probably would be better starting all over again.
The 40GB hard drive is eventually going to end up in another computer.
Thanks Tricia

 

[Rich Barry]

Tricia, you could image your XP partition using Ghost, Drive Image or
Acronis True Image. Then restore it on the
120G drive. From the Recovery Console you can do a Fixboot, Fixmbr and
Bootcfg which will repair the boot.ini file.
For right now you can delete everything on the C: drive except:
ntldr, cmldr, boot.ini, bootsect.dos and ntdetect. "Tricia"