Change boot partition on hard disk - how?

[Bad Wind]

Hi.
Following reinstallation of XP home, I now have a partitioned hard disk with
XP installed in the partition F:
Partition sizes,
C: 8 GB
F: 52 GB

I am able to delete the data in C and acquire a partitioning program to
remove or resize the partitions.

What is the best way to make C: my primary bootable drive?


How did I end up with a hard disk like this? Well I tried to roll back my
system by reinstalling the hard drive image (from partition E) provided as
part of the system recovery package. This failed and left me with a
partially formatted and partitioned hard drive. Fortunately I had a XP home
disk available (thank goodness for friends) and this recovered the situation
and did a full XP install for me, but on drive F!

Ian.

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

Well just bakup your important data and delete the current
partition and just have 1 partition which will be C then just
reload Win XP, also go into your system Bios and make the
cdrom primary bootdevice 1, restart and follow he menu

Alvin

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

Well just bakup your important data and delete the current
partition and just have 1 partition which will be C

Better yet, *don't* just have one partition which is C: - just make
sure C: is the primary you install to.

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