remove xp from dual boot

[Ed Mc]

My windowsME disk is failing. It contains my C: with the boot.ini file.
How can I remove WindowsXP, which is drive D: and on a separate disk,
from the dual boot process. I have moved all of the files I need to keep
over to XP.I want to be able to just fire up XP when I remove the disk
containing WindowsME. I've Googled for answers but can't really decipher
the info from various forums. Thank you VERY much for any help.

 

[peter]

Move the D drive to the C position......change the jumpers on the back to
master.
Look here for how to use the Recovey Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
you need to use the FIXBOOT and the FIXMBR commands
If they by some remote chance to do not work then a repair installation is
needed.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

peter

 

[Ron Sommer]

Before moving the drives, make sure that you can boot to a XP CD.
XP is going to say that it is on D.
If that is a not what you want, then you will have to do a clean install of
XP.
--
Ronald Sommer

: Move the D drive to the C position......change the jumpers on the back to
: master.
: Look here for how to use the Recovey Console
: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
: you need to use the FIXBOOT and the FIXMBR commands
: If they by some remote chance to do not work then a repair installation is
: needed.
: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
:
: peter
:
: : > My windowsME disk is failing. It contains my C: with the boot.ini file.
: > How can I remove WindowsXP, which is drive D: and on a separate disk,
from
: > the dual boot process. I have moved all of the files I need to keep over
: > to XP.I want to be able to just fire up XP when I remove the disk
: > containing WindowsME. I've Googled for answers but can't really decipher
: > the info from various forums. Thank you VERY much for any help.
:
:

 

[Rock]

Move the D drive to the C position......change the jumpers on the back to
master.
Look here for how to use the Recovey Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
you need to use the FIXBOOT and the FIXMBR commands
If they by some remote chance to do not work then a repair installation is
needed.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Peter, you can't "Move the D drive to the C position..." There is no such
thing. Drive letters are assigned by the OS - a software assignment. It is
based on a combination of factors such as what hardware is installed when
the new volume or drive is detected, what OS's are installed where, the
partitioning and how drives are recognized in the BIOS. Once a volume is
given a drive letter by XP it can be changed using disk management _unless_
it's either a boot volume or system volume. In this case the drive where XP
is installed is a boot volume (contains the XP windows files) and can't be
changed without a reinstall. Moving the drive to a different IDE channel
or changing from Master to Slave or visa versa won't change that.

 

[peter]

I put it into simple terms.....instead of move the slave drive to the master
position and the master drive to the slave position.
peter

 

[Rock]

I put it into simple terms.....instead of move the slave drive to the
master position and the master drive to the slave position.

peter

There is a difference between what you said now and what you said before.
One does not move a drive from the D to C position, there is no such think,
nor does a drive need to be moved at all to a different channel to get the
system running. It's convention that the drive from which the system boots
is on the primary IDE channel as Master, but that's not necessary.