Remove dual boot?

[Brian Parkinson]

I have windows 98 on my C drive and XP on a separate drive D in a dual boot
set up. I never use the W98 and so would like to revert to XP only and have
a spare drive for data etc. Can someone point me to a step by step set of
instructions in order to revert to XP only?

Appreciate your help,
Brian

 

[Guest]

search for boot.ini then open with notepad. remove the line that targets
your unwanted drive and save as boot.ini

 

[Guest]

PS: save the ini file at the original location...

 

[Timothy Daniels]

That description is incomplete.

If both the following conditions are true:
1) The boot.ini file is currently on the "C: drive", i.e. the
partition containing the Win98, and
2) The OP wants to boot with the "D: drive", i.e. the
partition which contains the WinXP,

then the boot.ini file must be on partition D:, "rdisk()" in that
boot.ini file must refer to "rdidk(0)" - not "rdisk(1)" - and
partition D: must be marked "active" (using Disk Management),
and the hard drive containing partition D: must be at the head
of the BIOS's hard drive boot order. Without diddling in the
BIOS - trivial, but sometimes beyond a newbie's understanding
or comfort level - the default HD boot order can be used by
merely jumpering the HD that contains the WinXP partition as
Master and the HD that now contains the Win98 as Slave (if they
are on the same cable). Or, the WinXP HD can be put on
IDE ch. 0 as Master or Slave, and the HD containing Win98
can be put on IDE ch. 1 as Master or Slave, and the HD on
ch. 0 (the one with WinXP) will control the booting.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Michael Stevens]

I have windows 98 on my C drive and XP on a separate drive D in a
dual boot set up. I never use the W98 and so would like to revert to
XP only and have a spare drive for data etc. Can someone point me to
a step by step set of instructions in order to revert to XP only?

Appreciate your help,
Brian

Remove a dual boot.
#19 on the FAQ list
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#019
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[Timothy Daniels]

then the boot.ini file must be on partition D:, "rdisk()" in that
boot.ini file must refer to "rdidk(0)" - not "rdisk(1)" - and

Typo: the parameter is spelled "rdisk()".

*TimDaniels*

 

[Brian Parkinson]

Appreciate everyone's efforts in helping me with this but I think Michael's
response provides the definitive answer ... thank you. It looks a little
involved but I will have a go. Thanks again, Brian

 

[Michael Stevens]

Appreciate everyone's efforts in helping me with this but I think
Michael's response provides the definitive answer ... thank you. It
looks a little involved but I will have a go. Thanks again, Brian

Thanks for the feedback, let us know if the information was successful.

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