My set-up at present is a dual boot system with win 98 on one partition
and win xp on another. On boot up I am offered the choice by winxp boot
manager to start either system.
This has been working fine until recently. It appears that something in
win98 system has become corrupted and it does not work very well. My
idea would be to delete win98 altogether and just add the space to the
partition that contains winxp or get rid of the second partition. I
don't really need win98 any more, I would be quite satisfied with just
winxp.
I should add that I have Acronis Partition Expert installed in win98. I
have been uninstalling programs from win98 as I get them up and running
on winxp and transferring the space to the winxp partition
Is what I am thinking feasible or am I likely to muck up my winxp
installation. And what will happen to the winxp boot manager?

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Bob

Clean Install Windows XP
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"Bob" wrote:

| My set-up at present is a dual boot system with win 98 on one partition
| and win xp on another. On boot up I am offered the choice by winxp boot
| manager to start either system.
| This has been working fine until recently. It appears that something in
| win98 system has become corrupted and it does not work very well. My
| idea would be to delete win98 altogether and just add the space to the
| partition that contains winxp or get rid of the second partition. I
| don't really need win98 any more, I would be quite satisfied with just
| winxp.
| I should add that I have Acronis Partition Expert installed in win98. I
| have been uninstalling programs from win98 as I get them up and running
| on winxp and transferring the space to the winxp partition
| Is what I am thinking feasible or am I likely to muck up my winxp
| installation. And what will happen to the winxp boot manager?
|
| Any advice would be most appreciated.
|
| Bob

Is your Win 98 installation on C: and the XP on D:? Assuming that's the
case you cannot just delete the C partition as it hosts the XP boot files
and also changing the drive letter for XP would cause major problems. What
you could do is delete the Win 98 directory tree (safer to rename it first
and use for a while in case any files there are used), modify the boot.ini,
and keep a small C partition to host the boot files in the root. This must
all be done very carefully and I would strongly recommend doing a full
system backup first.
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"Bob" <robert.palmer8@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:99Snf.18457$E14.3267@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...
> My set-up at present is a dual boot system with win 98 on one partition
> and win xp on another. On boot up I am offered the choice by winxp boot
> manager to start either system.
> This has been working fine until recently. It appears that something in
> win98 system has become corrupted and it does not work very well. My idea
> would be to delete win98 altogether and just add the space to the
> partition that contains winxp or get rid of the second partition. I don't
> really need win98 any more, I would be quite satisfied with just winxp.
> I should add that I have Acronis Partition Expert installed in win98. I
> have been uninstalling programs from win98 as I get them up and running on
> winxp and transferring the space to the winxp partition
> Is what I am thinking feasible or am I likely to muck up my winxp
> installation. And what will happen to the winxp boot manager?
>
> Any advice would be most appreciated.
>
> Bob

GTS wrote:
> Is your Win 98 installation on C: and the XP on D:? Assuming that's the
> case you cannot just delete the C partition as it hosts the XP boot files
> and also changing the drive letter for XP would cause major problems. What
> you could do is delete the Win 98 directory tree (safer to rename it first
> and use for a while in case any files there are used), modify the boot.ini,
> and keep a small C partition to host the boot files in the root. This must
> all be done very carefully and I would strongly recommend doing a full
> system backup first.
Thank you for your advice!

"Bob" <robert.palmer8@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:43A13DA4.8060001@ntlworld.com...
> GTS wrote:
>> Is your Win 98 installation on C: and the XP on D:? Assuming that's the
>> case you cannot just delete the C partition as it hosts the XP boot files
>> and also changing the drive letter for XP would cause major problems.
>> What you could do is delete the Win 98 directory tree (safer to rename it
>> first and use for a while in case any files there are used), modify the
>> boot.ini, and keep a small C partition to host the boot files in the
>> root. This must all be done very carefully and I would strongly
>> recommend doing a full system backup first.
> Thank you for your advice!

You're welcome.