Win2k and XP

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Cherry

I have Windows 2000 Professional on my C drive and Windows
XP on my D drive. I have installed all other software’s
like .NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL Server using XP on
drives other than C drive.
Now at this stage can I format my C drive ? Will I be able
to continue using all application without any issues ? Is
there something like boot.ini (or) something similar i
need to backup ?
 
No. A dual boot environment looks for boot.ini on the first physical
disk, and on the first bootable partition. Are these "drives" separate
physical disks or different partitions on the same physical disk. This may
have an impact on what recommendation one can give you. Can you please do a
new posting with this additional information?
 
Cherry,

Windows XP uses the the BOOT.INI to load the the operating system. It also
uses NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM which are also located on the root of your
first Primary partition. In your case it sounds like that partition is your
C:\ drive.

You can delete the c:\winnt directory and modify your BOOT.INI to omit the
reference to Windows 2000 without formating your c:\ partition.

Jeff Wade [MS]
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| I have Windows 2000 Professional on my C drive and Windows
| XP on my D drive. I have installed all other software’s
| like .NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL Server using XP on
| drives other than C drive.
| Now at this stage can I format my C drive ? Will I be able
| to continue using all application without any issues ? Is
| there something like boot.ini (or) something similar i
| need to backup ?
|
|

Sincerely,

Jeffrey L. Wade
Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support
 
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