Delete Dual Boot

[MedRxman]

I currently have a dual boot. Win98.Win XP Pro

2 physical drives.

WIn 98 on Physical Drive 1 (C)
Win XP Pro on physical drive 2 ( D)

If I wish to format D and use for storage how do get rid of the dual noot?

 

[thanatoid]

Thought you were going to dual boot win98 and XP?

anyway if you are just going to use win98

boot with your floppy and run fdisk /mbr

If C is the boot drive, wouldn't that be "sys c:" ???

OP:
I /HIGHLY/ recommend dividing D (or both D /AND/ C) into several
virtual drives. If you had done that, you would not have this
/exact/ problem, it would be a /lot/ simpler to manage.

There are dozens of other advantages. ONLY your OS's and most,
not even necessarily /all/ programs, should be on the root
drive. Everything else should be elsewhere.

 

[MedRxMan]

I was thinking of doing this so that I could use Partition Magic and It's
BootMagic to install another operating system (WINXP) and have BootMagic
manage the boot scenarion

Do you think I should go with my original question as opposed to a fresh
install?


My mind is in a querry, Sorry. My C drive is an 80 GB drive with only 8 GB
being used and the physical 2nd drive is only 40 GB, D(20GB) E 13(GB) and
F(7GB).

I know it is odd but originally I had the 2nd drive for storage but then I
could not run the new Quicken in Win 98 and the WinXP disk that supposodly
tells you if you can run it on your PC said I coule not. But I found drivers
for what I needed and said what the hell, give it a try and well, XP
installed and worked like a charm. Now I would rather use the larher drive.


Sorry for all the confusion. I do have some programs in WIN 98 that run well
so I do not want to get rid of WIN 98.

Bottom line is that I AM going to use XP somehow.

Thanks for your input.

BL

 

[Bill in Co.]

I was thinking of doing this so that I could use Partition Magic and It's
BootMagic to install another operating system (WINXP) and have BootMagic
manage the boot scenarion

Do you think I should go with my original question as opposed to a fresh
install?


My mind is in a querry, Sorry. My C drive is an 80 GB drive with only 8
GB
being used and the physical 2nd drive is only 40 GB, D(20GB) E 13(GB) and
F(7GB).

I know it is odd but originally I had the 2nd drive for storage but then I
could not run the new Quicken in Win 98 and the WinXP disk that supposodly
tells you if you can run it on your PC said I coule not. But I found
drivers
for what I needed and said what the hell, give it a try and well, XP
installed and worked like a charm. Now I would rather use the larher
drive.


Sorry for all the confusion. I do have some programs in WIN 98 that run
well
so I do not want to get rid of WIN 98.

What programs, if any, do you actually have that will run in Win 98, but
that won't run in Win XP (except for some dumb games)?

 

[Gordon]

I currently have a dual boot. Win98.Win XP Pro

2 physical drives.

WIn 98 on Physical Drive 1 (C)
Win XP Pro on physical drive 2 ( D)

If I wish to format D and use for storage how do get rid of the dual
noot?

Why are you wanting to use an obsolete and almost completely insecure OS
over a more modern and (comparatively) far more secure OS? I would STRONGLY
recommend that you ditch 98 and keep XP...

 

[Gordon]

I was thinking of doing this so that I could use Partition Magic and It's
BootMagic to install another operating system (WINXP) and have BootMagic
manage the boot scenarion

But in your first post you say you already HAVE XP.....why would you want
TWO installs of XP?

 

[David Gilder]

Re a question above Metastock Ver 7 will not run on XP
works fine on 98.
You must upgrade to ver 8 to current 11
As you are playing for real money one must except this.
I understand about XP emulation bur stand by my real
money corment.
Only submited because of the comment and have been thru
this problem.One must upgrade.

David Gilder

 

[dadiOH]

I currently have a dual boot. Win98.Win XP Pro

2 physical drives.

WIn 98 on Physical Drive 1 (C)
Win XP Pro on physical drive 2 ( D)

If I wish to format D and use for storage how do get rid of the dual
noot?

1. Use sys :c from a floppy

2. Delete boot.ini, ntldr and NTDETECT.COM from C: (Note: this isn't
required, just keeps things tidy). Probably ntuser.dat and ntuser.dat.log
too.

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dadiOH
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[dadiOH]

I was thinking of doing this so that I could use Partition Magic and
It's BootMagic to install another operating system (WINXP) and have
BootMagic manage the boot scenarion

Do you think I should go with my original question as opposed to a
fresh install?


My mind is in a querry, Sorry. My C drive is an 80 GB drive with
only 8 GB being used and the physical 2nd drive is only 40 GB,
D(20GB) E 13(GB) and F(7GB).

I know it is odd but originally I had the 2nd drive for storage but
then I could not run the new Quicken in Win 98 and the WinXP disk
that supposodly tells you if you can run it on your PC said I coule
not. But I found drivers for what I needed and said what the hell,
give it a try and well, XP installed and worked like a charm. Now I
would rather use the larher drive.

Sorry for all the confusion. I do have some programs in WIN 98 that
run well so I do not want to get rid of WIN 98.

Bottom line is that I AM going to use XP somehow.

So use the install you already have.

Why would you want to use BootMagic in place of the Windows boot manager?

Have you tried running the Win98 programs that concern you from XP? Most
will work just fine even though they aren't "installed" on XP. Their
registry entries aren't available to them - they are in the Win98 registry -
so they'll make new ones in the XP registry; that means you will have to
redo their options and any purchased keys.

If any won't run under XP it may be because of lack of a needed file in
which case it will likely inform you and you can copy the file from C: to
D:. If that doesn't fix it you can try XP's "run in compatibility" mode; if
that still doesn't fix things just boot to Win98 when you want to run it.

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

 

[MedRxMan]

Thanks for all the replies/suggestions. I have decided at this point in time
that I will probably go with XP as my one and only OS. I shall keep things
as they are for now using 2 physical drives.

When, and I am sure it will, one of the physical drives dies, I will then do
a fresh install of WinXP sp3 on the surving drive as long as it is the
larger drive to survive, or I shall purchase a new larger drive for the
fresh install.

I have currrently resized the drives to gve me more disk space on the XP
partition.

Again, Thanks to all and Have a Happy New Year

BL

 

[MedRxMan]

None, all the programs in WIn 98 will run in XP., I just need the space on
the small XP partition. And I DO NOT play games. Only poker on line.