BootIT.NG worked great

[Happier Peggy]

I ended up deleting everything with the BootIT.NG floppy.
Because I don't have a bootable CD, I tried reinstalling
98 and then XP using the FAT32 file system because I
thought the NTFS was my problem. I still had the same
problems...couldn't reset the primary partition or delete
the 98 from FDISK. So, I deleted everything again with
BootIt.NG...found the download for using a set of 6
floppy disks to boot the XP. The installation appears to
be complete...I think I am home free! Thanks for your
help!


>-----Original Message-----
>Ok, then the procedures I outlined will NOT work because
you installed XP as
>D:! As soon as you delete the Win98 partition (now C:),
the XP partition
>(D:) will become C:! Additionally, all MS OS's install
their boot files on
>C:, even if Windows itself is running on D:, or E;,
etc. So deleting the
>current Win98 will not only dump Win98, but the boot
files you need to load
>XP. This is the problem when using the MS loader, it
forces you to assign
>each OS to a new partition, which then generates a C:
partition dependency
>for the boot files AND an internal partition dependency
to the OS itself (in
>this case, your XP registry is full of D:
specifications). Using BootIT
>NG's boot manager avoids all these problems.
>
>So unless you want to multi-boot, you will have to start
the XP installation
>over. As long as you don't need the Win98 installation,
you can boot the XP
>CD and let it delete C: and recreate the C: partition,
format, etc., very
>straight-forward. If you want, you can just as easily
use BootIT NG to
>delete everything as well. Delete the volumes in the
extended first, then
>the extended, and finally the first primary (Win98).
Now reboot to your XP
>CD and go.
>
>HTH
>
>Jim
>
>
>"Peggy" > wrote in message
...
>> Thanks Jim. I will have to try this later today. I am
>> not sure that I made myself very clear on my goal to
>> delete 98 entirely and put XP in the primary. Will I
>> still be able to delete 98 after I complete the process
>> you outlined?
>>
>> Peggy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >You can start over, but may not have to.
>> >
>> >Visit http://www.bootitng.com and DL BootIt NG. Unzip
>> the file, execute
>> >BOOTING.EXE to create the bootable floppy (accept the
>> defaults), and reboot
>> >to floppy A:. When the Welcome to Setup screen
appears,
>> select Cancel,
>> >follow the prompts, and you will be taken to the
>> Partition Manager. From
>> >there, you can move the extended volume (WinXP) to a
>> primary right after the
>> >first primry partition (Win98). May take a little
>> resizing of the extended
>> >to "squeeze" it in, but should work, just as long as
the
>> drive letter
>> >assigment remain the same. When done, hit Close,
which
>> returns you to the
>> >Maintenance screen, remove the floppy, an hit Reboot.
>> >
>> >HTH
>> >
>> >Jim
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >"Peggy" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >> A big mess...I have 98 installed on the primary
>> >> partition, XP on an extended partition. NTFS was
>> >> selected on the installation of XP so a logical
drive
>> is
>> >> on the extended partition but is not seen by the
FDISK
>> >> program. I have tried all of the options and FDISK
>> >> cannot delete the extended program until it deletes
the
>> >> logical drive (which it cannot see, and won't delete
>> what
>> >> is not there). I want to either remove 98 from the
>> >> primary or delete everything and start over. Is
there
>> >> another way besides FDISK to do this?
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
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