please help URGENT

[SailSpray]

PLEASE I'm getting desparate, this is third time I've posted about this,
what do I have to do to get any response?

I have Win98se on C, -I installed WinXP (from Win98) onto D- a second new
physical hard drive, and dual boot all running fine. Copying Data across
going fine.
After I have all data etc I want copied from C and running on D (XP), I
wanted to convert D to NTFS, clean C(win98), remove it, and have the pc
booting to XP on D (which would then become C).
I've searched and experimented but can't find a way that works. I assumed
there would be a well tried method to do what I want!
I don't want to waste the time spent so far but would it do me any good
stating over again with Boot Magic say
Thanks
Roger

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

You could try moving the boot files from C to D (NTLDR, ntdetect.com and
boot.ini) and then marking the partition as active after you remove the
Win98 disk. What I would do is make an XP boot floppy (using the above
files and a GUI formatted floppy), remove the old drive, boot the machine
from the floppy if you can and then copy the files and mark the disk active
and see what happens.

 

[Lorne Smith]

In addition to Joseph's suggestion, I think you'll find XP still will not
function correctly as it was installed when the drive was D and now it's C.
Many parts of it will then expect to find it on D and it's no longer there.
You're quite likely to save yourself a LOT of hassle by performing a repair
install, this should not delete any of your documents but any installed
programs will probably also have to be reinstalled as they to will reference
D as the windows drive.

Lorne

 

[SailSpray]

My thanks to you on this and other threads, I'm not there yet but I have
hope!

 

[Lorne Smith]

No problem... Have you tried a repair install yet?

Lorne