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DANY K
December 5th 03, 01:09 AM
i had win98 instaleed on my c:/ drive and then i
installed winXP but it was installed on my d:/ drive so
noew i have 2 OS's.
can i format the c:/ drive or is there any way to get rid
of the win98?

Joseph Conway \(MSFT\)
December 5th 03, 01:09 AM
You can format the drive but most likely your Windows XP boot files are
located there, also D wont be marked active for boot. Copy NTLDR,
ntdetect.com and boot.ini to a floppy that you can boot off of. Or you can
inplace the OS for XP and that will replace them.

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Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/2003 Server Group

Opinions expressed here are my personal opinions and are provided without
warranty.

318752 HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318752

"DANY K" > wrote in message
...
> i had win98 instaleed on my c:/ drive and then i
> installed winXP but it was installed on my d:/ drive so
> noew i have 2 OS's.
> can i format the c:/ drive or is there any way to get rid
> of the win98?

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