system partition

[bill]

Hello

I have a computer with two hard drives. The original "C"
has '98 on it. I recently installed XP on the second
drive (NTFS). It automatically installed a dual boot
option, which is good, but I didn't realize the system
partition stayed on C. I thought both drives would get
their own.

Is there a way to a) put the XP system partition on the
XP drive or b) move the system partition to the XP
drive. It was my intention to get rid of win'98 once I
got XP settled in. That and the '98 drive has been flaky
lately and I don't want to rely on it to boot the system

thanks in advance

Bill

 

[Kenny]

If you want to remove 98 look here:
http://tweakhomepc.virtualave.net/dual/removedualboot.html

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a computer with two hard drives. The original "C"
has '98 on it. I recently installed XP on the second
drive (NTFS). It automatically installed a dual boot
option, which is good, but I didn't realize the system
partition stayed on C. I thought both drives would get
their own.

Is there a way to a) put the XP system partition on the
XP drive or b) move the system partition to the XP
drive. It was my intention to get rid of win'98 once I
got XP settled in.

That is the way the setting up of the dual boot is done - the original
boot remains where it was, and the system is installed to a second
partition. The letter of that is now deeply imbedded in he registry,
and is impracticable to change other than by starting over clean.
Easiest is to leave the boot files where they are, but edit the Win98
out of he boot.ini, and delete the folders from that drive

You *could* copy the boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com over to the XP
partition and then make that one active - which will achieve the same
appearance, with the XP on a 'non C' letter