Re: Dual Booting

John John wrote:
Getting rid of Windows 98 is fairly simple. Boot to your XP installation and remove the Windows 98 folder then edit the boot.ini file accordingly. To edit the boot.ini file click on Start>Run and enter the msconfig command. In msconfig click on the BOOT.INI tab and check all boot paths then remove the invalid paths.

I don't know how you setup your dual boot, did you use Acronis and give each operating system its own system partition? Or did you do this the Microsoft way, did you install Windows 98 then Windows XP as per Microsoft instruction?

Depending on the answers to the above questions, if you are sure that there is nothing that you want to keep on the Windows 98 drive/partition you can delete everything on the Windows 98 partition EXCEPT (some of) the files in the root directory. To be safe leave the files in the C:\ root intact. Regardless of how you set up the multi-boot all the files on the Windows 98 partition except those in the root are safe to delete. If you dual installed using the Microsoft method you will not be able to merge the 2 partitions, the Windows 98 partition is the System Partition for both operating systems and it must remain, but you will be able to slide some of the free space to the XP partition. You can just delete the Windows 98 stuff and use the partition as it is for data storage.

John

Bob wrote:

My set-up at present is a dual boot system with win 98 on one partition and win xp on another. On boot up I am offered the choice by winxp boot manager to start either system.
This has been working fine until recently. It appears that something in win98 system has become corrupted and it does not work very well. My idea would be to delete win98 altogether and just add the space to the partition that contains winxp or get rid of the second partition. I don't really need win98 any more, I would be quite satisfied with just winxp.
I should add that I have Acronis Partition Expert installed in win98. I have been uninstalling programs from win98 as I get them up and running on winxp and transferring the space to the winxp partition
Is what I am thinking feasible or am I likely to muck up my winxp installation. And what will happen to the winxp boot manager?

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Bob


Hello John
I initially had win98 installed on C
I then used Acronis to partition into C & D leaving win 98 unharmed.
I then installed winxp from within win98, Start, run, etc. (Winxp refused to install from dos.)
During installation I was asked if I wanted to install winxp on the empty partition D, which I did. Then winxp automatically set up the boot manager.
I realise that I could have simply used the winxp partition facility but not being too sure what the results would be I did it my way (no pun intended) It all worked very easily and I am hoping my deletion of win98 will be the same.

Bob
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