Erasing an OS????

[Zeretul]

I have win XP home and win98se on my pc. I have a dual
partitioned 60gb hdd with 50gb for XP, and 10gb for 98se.
The reason I installed 98se was for programs I thought
would not run on XP, and they do. So, I would like to
uninstall 98se from my machine. I know that I can't
delete the partition, and I also know that the hdd it
formated, at least partially, on a fat32 system. To
complicate matters further, my copy of win98se is the C
drive and XP is the D drive. So here is my question.

How can I erase 98se and reformat C drive for NTSF? Do I
really need to reformat the drive?

I plan to buy another, larger harddrive, and would like
to move XP to that larger drive altogether. How could I
plan for this?

As alway, your help is greatly appreciated

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You can format the drive, but its really not necessary. Boot to the XP
install, and you can remove almost everything from the C: drive. Leave
NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI. Any other files that are in use, XP won't
let you delete.

Then you can use the command prompt to convert the drive to NTFS.

CONVERT /? will give you a list of the command line options. Since this is
the boot drive it will tell you that the drive can't be dismounted, and ask
if you want to schedule conversion at the next restart.

Also see: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfs.htm