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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
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I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Thanks |
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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
occam wrote:
Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Thanks just delete the folder win98 is installed in then run msconfig and have it check for the boot path and let it remove the invalid entry |
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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
occam wrote:
Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Thanks just delete the folder win98 is installed in then run msconfig and have it check for the boot path and let it remove the invalid entry |
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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
occam wrote:
Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Ok, since you said that WinXP is on D: but you didn't go into more detail on how this is set up. Is this two separate drive units with a C: partition on one and the D partition on the other, or one drive unit with both the C: and D: partitions on it? Before we can give more specific details of what's involved, it's necessary that we know this. Also since this is posted in the Windows XP basic newsgroup, it could be above your technical abilities. |
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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
occam wrote: Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Ok, since you said that WinXP is on D: but you didn't go into more detail on how this is set up. Is this two separate drive units with a C: partition on one and the D partition on the other, or one drive unit with both the C: and D: partitions on it? Before we can give more specific details of what's involved, it's necessary that we know this. Also since this is posted in the Windows XP basic newsgroup, it could be above your technical abilities. |
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Roy Smith wrote:
occam wrote: Ok, since you said that WinXP is on D: but you didn't go into more detail on how this is set up. Is this two separate drive units with a C: partition on one and the D partition on the other, or one drive unit with both the C: and D: partitions on it? Roy Win XP is installed on the same drive, with two partitions C: and D: Before we can give more specific details of what's involved, it's necessary that we know this. Also since this is posted in the Windows XP basic newsgroup, it could be above your technical abilities. Try me. Windows basic NG is just a statting point. Where is the best NG to post this to? (As this is a 'throw-away' portable I am working with, I am not afraid of doing anything catastrophic with it.) Thanks |
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Roy Smith wrote: occam wrote: Ok, since you said that WinXP is on D: but you didn't go into more detail on how this is set up. Is this two separate drive units with a C: partition on one and the D partition on the other, or one drive unit with both the C: and D: partitions on it? Roy Win XP is installed on the same drive, with two partitions C: and D: Before we can give more specific details of what's involved, it's necessary that we know this. Also since this is posted in the Windows XP basic newsgroup, it could be above your technical abilities. Try me. Windows basic NG is just a statting point. Where is the best NG to post this to? (As this is a 'throw-away' portable I am working with, I am not afraid of doing anything catastrophic with it.) Thanks |
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philo wrote:
occam wrote: Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Thanks just delete the folder win98 is installed in then run msconfig and have it check for the boot path and let it remove the invalid entry Philo I am assuming you mean when logged into the XP partition? Deleting the C: drive (where Win 98 is) was not allowed. The message was something like 'MS system files -- deletion not allowed'. (This is effectively the same message I get when I try and re-format this (Fat32) partition as NTFS space, for use by the XP system. |
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philo wrote:
occam wrote: Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Thanks just delete the folder win98 is installed in then run msconfig and have it check for the boot path and let it remove the invalid entry Philo I am assuming you mean when logged into the XP partition? Deleting the C: drive (where Win 98 is) was not allowed. The message was something like 'MS system files -- deletion not allowed'. (This is effectively the same message I get when I try and re-format this (Fat32) partition as NTFS space, for use by the XP system. |
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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
occam wrote:
Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. You will not be able to remove or format the C: drive, in NT terminology this C: drive is refered to as the System Partition. This partition is flagged as the 'Active Partition', it is the partition that is used to boot the computer and it contains files necessary to boot Windows XP. You can remove all of the files on the C: partition *except* the following which are necessary to boot Windows XP: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr NTBOOTDD.SYS (if present, which I doubt, used for SCSI Controllers without a SCSI BIOS) John |
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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
occam wrote: Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. You will not be able to remove or format the C: drive, in NT terminology this C: drive is refered to as the System Partition. This partition is flagged as the 'Active Partition', it is the partition that is used to boot the computer and it contains files necessary to boot Windows XP. You can remove all of the files on the C: partition *except* the following which are necessary to boot Windows XP: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr NTBOOTDD.SYS (if present, which I doubt, used for SCSI Controllers without a SCSI BIOS) John |
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On Oct 31, 6:15*pm, occam wrote:
Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Thanks If you have a bootable XP installation CD that you used to install XP and do not want W98 (ever), before you get too far along, whack (reformat) that disk and reinstall XP onto the C drive. If you want a D partition for storage or programs, create one. I would do it while you can before you wish you had done it later - and have a big mess. That way, you will be more in line with most "regular" type of XP installations which will make discussions a lot easier later. You will never have to say something like: Well... everybody else's XP is installed on C, but my XP is installed on D and some of my stuff is on C and some on D and now I'm all mixed up. BTW, I also have Win98 installed on C, could that be my problem with XP? |
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How to make a dual boot PC into single boot?
On Oct 31, 6:15*pm, occam wrote:
Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. Thanks If you have a bootable XP installation CD that you used to install XP and do not want W98 (ever), before you get too far along, whack (reformat) that disk and reinstall XP onto the C drive. If you want a D partition for storage or programs, create one. I would do it while you can before you wish you had done it later - and have a big mess. That way, you will be more in line with most "regular" type of XP installations which will make discussions a lot easier later. You will never have to say something like: Well... everybody else's XP is installed on C, but my XP is installed on D and some of my stuff is on C and some on D and now I'm all mixed up. BTW, I also have Win98 installed on C, could that be my problem with XP? |
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John John - MVP wrote:
occam wrote: Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. You will not be able to remove or format the C: drive, in NT terminology this C: drive is refered to as the System Partition. This partition is flagged as the 'Active Partition', it is the partition that is used to boot the computer and it contains files necessary to boot Windows XP. You can remove all of the files on the C: partition *except* the following which are necessary to boot Windows XP: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr NTBOOTDD.SYS (if present, which I doubt, used for SCSI Controllers without a SCSI BIOS) John Hi John Thanks for that info. If I understand correctly therefore, then the better option is to re-install XP over Win 98 (in Drive C and re-format the Drive D (initial XP install)? (I believ this is what Jose, in the next message, is also telling me.) Thanks |
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John John - MVP wrote:
occam wrote: Hi I found an old Win98 PC, and decided to install Win XP on it (Drive D to see if it would be too slow. It was not, even with 196 (!) MB of RAM. My question - how can I keep the Win XP and uninstall Win 98? (Right now, on boot up, I get offered to boot up in either.) I have tried to reformat C: drive, but the system will not allow it. You will not be able to remove or format the C: drive, in NT terminology this C: drive is refered to as the System Partition. This partition is flagged as the 'Active Partition', it is the partition that is used to boot the computer and it contains files necessary to boot Windows XP. You can remove all of the files on the C: partition *except* the following which are necessary to boot Windows XP: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr NTBOOTDD.SYS (if present, which I doubt, used for SCSI Controllers without a SCSI BIOS) John Hi John Thanks for that info. If I understand correctly therefore, then the better option is to re-install XP over Win 98 (in Drive C and re-format the Drive D (initial XP install)? (I believ this is what Jose, in the next message, is also telling me.) Thanks |
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