Deleting Win98 but not XP

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elgordo said:
I picked up his PC. It has the 2 OS on one 5Gb hd
(Fat32)and a slave of 40Gb (NTFS),with about 800Mb on it
(mostly Office 2003). He is prepared to lose the Office.
When I try to boot up in MS98 I get several corrupted file
messages, so that is out. It would be best to move
everything to the larger hd and make it he primary. The
smaller hd is making noises too like the wings are going
to fall off,so it probably needs scrapping.Any input please/
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Normally, the easiest thing to do would be to clone the
WinXP in the old 5GB drive to the new 40GB drive.
But cloning would copy over the FAT32 formatting as
well. Also, you'd want to put the WinXP into a larger
partition on the new drive. Utilities that clone just single
partitions (not the whole drive) and which change formats
and which increase partition size cost money. You'd also
have to find for me the location of the boot files and the
contents of the boot.ini file (neither of which you have done).
So the safest and simplest and cheapest thing to do would
be to just use your WinXP installation CD to install WinXP
on the new 40GB drive in a partition of a size of your
choosing and tell it to format the partition with NTFS. Then
copy over the data files from the old FAT32 WinXP partition,
and grit your teeth and re-install all the apps.

*TimDaniels*
 
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