Re: Remove Dual Boot - Partition and Boot Magic

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From: Andrew Murray (admurray_at_iinet.net.au)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 08:22:46 +0800

I'm interested in knowing this also. I currently have Window ME / WIndows
XP Pro dual boot

ME is on C: drive, XP on D: drive (two partitions, one physical disk).

1) How to convert back to single OS (XP Pro) without having to reformat,
repartition (or delete 2nd Parition) and reinstall XP.

2) If I leave it as is, can I convert one partition to NTFS and leave the
other as Fat32? I know NTFS can't "see" Fat32 and vice versa.

I have Parition Magic and BootMagic.

They are installed on the Windows ME partition - does this make a
difference? SHould I install them on the XP partition instead?

"VBA Dave" <VBADave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:71CE2B8B-D267-411B-841F-804AD4A5CCCC@microsoft.com...
> The original OS was Win 98 SE.
>
> Using Partition Magic 8, I created a separate primary partition on the
> same
> physical drive and installed Win XP Pro.
>
> I then used Boot Magic to select which OS to launch.
>
> To get rid of 98 do I just have to delete the 98 partition after booting
> into XP?
> Or do I also have to edit the boot.ini file as explained in some of the
> other posts?
>
> Partition Magic was very thorough in explaning how to setup a dual boot,
> but
> not one word on the steps for going back to a single boot system.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> VBA Dave

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