Re: Dual Boot Problem



Do the upgrade from 98 to 98SE
then do a repair installation of XP to fix the broken dual boot
peterk

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"Bruce" <Bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B325715F-3CD9-4B30-B8FA-C7982419EE5D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi.
>
> My Pc currently has XP and Win98 as a dual boot configuration. XP is on my
> C
> drive, and 98 is on my D.
> The problem I have now is that I have to upgrade the 98 to 98SE. What is
> the safest way to do this without damaging my XP OS? Can I just boot to 98
> and proceed to do the upgrade without fear of damaging my XP installation?
> By the way, Bot OS's are on 1 drive, different partitions, if they weren't
> I
> would consider powering down the XP drive as a precaution.
>
> Any help ASAP is very much appreciated, and if you could reply to my
> e-mail
> as well, I would be very gratefull!
>
> my e-mail is:
> avro.arrow@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>


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