operating systems

[Guest]

Hi,

I currently have a dual boot system windows 2000 on C:\ and XP on d:\, these
are seperate hard drives. I dont need the 2000 anymore, what is the best way
to remove it and move the XP to c:\. I do not want to reformat from scratch
and loose all my setting.
Has anybody got any ideas?. I could live with leaving the XP on D:\ but how
do i remove 2000.

cheers

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I currently have a dual boot system windows 2000 on C:\ and XP on d:\, these
are seperate hard drives. I dont need the 2000 anymore, what is the best way
to remove it and move the XP to c:\. I do not want to reformat from scratch
and loose all my setting.
Has anybody got any ideas?. I could live with leaving the XP on D:\ but how
do i remove 2000.

cheers

1. Boot into WinXP.
2. Rename c:\WinNT to WinNT.old
3. Wait a week.
4. If all is well, delete c:\WinNT.old

That's all!

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

It is highly likely that you are booting from C:\, so formatting it would be
a bad thing. Simply delete the unneeded system files on C:, then open system
properties in the control panel, and on the advanced tab click startup and
recovery settings. Click the edit button to open boot.ini in notepad and
remove the line that boots the Win2000 system from the [operating systems]
section. Close saving changes and you are done.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Ron Sommer]

NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR and BOOT.INI are boot files for XP.
Delete everything else from C.
In XP, Start, Run, notepad c:\boot.ini
Remove windows 2000 from the operating systems.

 

[Frank]

Hi,

I currently have a dual boot system windows 2000 on C:\ and XP on
d:\, these are seperate hard drives. I dont need the 2000 anymore,
what is the best way to remove it and move the XP to c:\. I do not
want to reformat from scratch and loose all my setting.
Has anybody got any ideas?. I could live with leaving the XP on D:\
but how do i remove 2000.

cheers

*Use a W98 bootdisk (bootdisk.com)
*FDISK > Delete the W2K partition
*Shutdown
*Remove the W2K drive
*With the W98 bootdisk FDISK /MBR
*Now use your XP CD to reboot and do a repair install
*Do an XP repair install
(http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm)

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Deleting everything other than the system files from
drive C: might be risky. A far safer method would be
to rename the folders and wait some time before deleting
them permanently. The OP's "Documents and Settings"
folder could easily reside on drive C:. Deleting it would
be disastrous!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

*Use a W98 bootdisk (bootdisk.com)
*FDISK > Delete the W2K partition
*Shutdown
*Remove the W2K drive
*With the W98 bootdisk FDISK /MBR
*Now use your XP CD to reboot and do a repair install
*Do an XP repair install
(http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm)

This is terrible advice, for these reasons:
- Why delete the Win2000 partition? It is the WinXP boot
partition!
- The OP might have important data on the Win2000
partition. Your recipe would wipe it completely!

 

[Steve N.]

Hi,

I currently have a dual boot system windows 2000 on C:\ and XP on d:\, these
are seperate hard drives. I dont need the 2000 anymore, what is the best way
to remove it and move the XP to c:\. I do not want to reformat from scratch
and loose all my setting.
Has anybody got any ideas?. I could live with leaving the XP on D:\ but how
do i remove 2000.

cheers

In addition to the other good advice if you want to move D: to C: and
vice-versa you can try this. Of course I'd backup first, as always when
messing with system configs.

Copy NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR and BOOT.INI files from C:\ to D:\, edit the
BOOT.INI file on D: so it appears as this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect
/NoExecute=OptIn

Swap the drive cabling/jumpering so that the old C: becomes D: and old
D: becomes C:. Verify that you can boot straight into XP and access the
D: drive, then you can do whatever you want with the D: drive, delete
everything, reformat it, whatever.

Steve N.

 

[Ron Sommer]

Hi,

I currently have a dual boot system windows 2000 on C:\ and XP on d:\,
these are seperate hard drives. I dont need the 2000 anymore, what is the
best way to remove it and move the XP to c:\. I do not want to reformat
from scratch and loose all my setting.
Has anybody got any ideas?. I could live with leaving the XP on D:\ but
how do i remove 2000.

cheers

In addition to the other good advice if you want to move D: to C: and
vice-versa you can try this. Of course I'd backup first, as always when
messing with system configs.

Copy NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR and BOOT.INI files from C:\ to D:\, edit the
BOOT.INI file on D: so it appears as this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect
/NoExecute=OptIn

Swap the drive cabling/jumpering so that the old C: becomes D: and old D:
becomes C:. Verify that you can boot straight into XP and access the D:
drive, then you can do whatever you want with the D: drive, delete
everything, reformat it, whatever.

Steve N.

XP has numerous entries in the Registry pointing to being installed on D.
There will be problems if you move XP to C.

 

[Steve N.]

ceeg wrote:

Hi,

I currently have a dual boot system windows 2000 on C:\ and XP on d:\,
these are seperate hard drives. I dont need the 2000 anymore, what is the
best way to remove it and move the XP to c:\. I do not want to reformat
from scratch and loose all my setting.
Has anybody got any ideas?. I could live with leaving the XP on D:\ but
how do i remove 2000.

cheers

In addition to the other good advice if you want to move D: to C: and
vice-versa you can try this. Of course I'd backup first, as always when
messing with system configs.

Copy NTDETECT.COM, NTLDR and BOOT.INI files from C:\ to D:\, edit the
BOOT.INI file on D: so it appears as this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect
/NoExecute=OptIn

Swap the drive cabling/jumpering so that the old C: becomes D: and old D:
becomes C:. Verify that you can boot straight into XP and access the D:
drive, then you can do whatever you want with the D: drive, delete
everything, reformat it, whatever.

Steve N.

XP has numerous entries in the Registry pointing to being installed on D.
There will be problems if you move XP to C.

You're absolutely right. I stand corrected, I don't know what I was
thinking. And in this light I don't think even a repair install would
work considering that all the apps on the XP drive are still configured
for drive D:.

Thanks for catching my bad advice Ron.

Steve N.

 

[Frank]

This is terrible advice, for these reasons:
- Why delete the Win2000 partition? It is the WinXP boot
partition!
- The OP might have important data on the Win2000
partition. Your recipe would wipe it completely!

Because it _will work_ to attain the results that he wishes.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Because it _will work_ to attain the results that he wishes.

Correct, but's about the most destructive method available,
short of erasing everything on the disk. There are far less
intrusive methods.