Confirmation of procedure for change of W2K installation

[Guest]

Greetings all!

Awhile back I posted a question about changing my W2K install. Currently I
have it installed as a dual-boot w/ Win98 and (for various reasons that I
have no control over) I was asked to find out how to change this to an
'upgrade' install. Through the kind help of several board members, DP in
particular, I was given the following and wanted to confirm whether this will
work correctly:

You can boot with your Win98 startup disk and issue the command
sys C:
this will rewrite the win9x boot sector, then you can delete these files
boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, pagefile.sys and possibly
ntbootdd.sys from the root of the System partition C:\., then you can delete
the Windows 2000 boot partition or \winnt directory (whichever the case)

Then *do* backup everything you can't afford to lose since the upgrade
process might leave you with nothing.

You can them start win98 normally and begin the upgrade process.

The reason I ask is that some similar-in-topic posts have stated not to
delete the files mentioned above and I really don't want to mess this up.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Greg

 

[Dave Patrick]

Yes, confirmed. Keep in mind backups are always required for anything you
can't afford to lose no matter the task.

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:
| Greetings all!
|
| Awhile back I posted a question about changing my W2K install. Currently
I
| have it installed as a dual-boot w/ Win98 and (for various reasons that I
| have no control over) I was asked to find out how to change this to an
| 'upgrade' install. Through the kind help of several board members, DP in
| particular, I was given the following and wanted to confirm whether this
will
| work correctly:
|
| >You can boot with your Win98 startup disk and issue the command
| >sys C:
| >this will rewrite the win9x boot sector, then you can delete these files
| >boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, pagefile.sys and possibly
| >ntbootdd.sys from the root of the System partition C:\., then you can
delete
| >the Windows 2000 boot partition or \winnt directory (whichever the case)
| >
| >Then *do* backup everything you can't afford to lose since the upgrade
| >process might leave you with nothing.
| >
| >You can them start win98 normally and begin the upgrade process.
|
| The reason I ask is that some similar-in-topic posts have stated not to
| delete the files mentioned above and I really don't want to mess this up.
| Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
|
| Greg

 

[Guest]

Dave,

Your first instruction, issuing the sys c: command, do I do that from the
Run dialog or from a DOS prompt?

Thanks!