Re: Any way to change the boot drive?

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From: Ganesh Anand (gatt143x_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 03:37:47 +0530

Sorry for the name "Microsoft" in the from field. I didn't notice that in
the settings. It took by default.

Regards,
Ganesh Anand

"Microsoft" <gatt143x@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I had a dual boot configuration with Win 98 and Win XP.
>
> Recently, I made up my mind to work with Windows XP and remove Windows 98.
>
> Windows 98 - Installed in partition C:
> Windows XP - Installed in partition F:
>
> The System drive (ntldr, ntdetect.com, bootsect.dos, boot.ini files) are
> located in C:
>
> To remove Windows 98 from my system, I deleted the folders, C:\Windows,
> C:\Program Files, C:\My Documents, C:\blah blah -- all that were offsets
of
> Windows 98.
>
> Now the partition contains the system files (i.e. ntldr, etc.). Hence my
> system partition remains as C: and the boot partition is F:
>
> My question is: what should I do inorder to make F: as my system partition
> so that I can format C: completely and make it as a fresh NTFS partition?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ganesh Anand
>
>

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