- Dual Boot
- Posted by akela on October 8th, 2005
I am running Windows 98 2ed on C and D drive. On one hard drive 40GB and XP
Pro (E and F) on another hard drive 40 GB. I want to make XP pro the only op
system. But when I remove the hard drive with 98 on it and try to reboot it
will not come up. My intention is to leave XP Pro on the 40 GB drive make it
C and D. and format the other drive. Any suggestions?
- Posted by Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers on October 8th, 2005
Hi,
Your boot files are on C, regardless of where the operating system files
are. You would need to run fixboot from the Recovery Console without the
Win98 disk installed, but that will only allow you to boot the XP
installation. It will not allow you to change it to "C", to do that would
require a start from scratch with no other lettered drives installed.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"akela" <akela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am running Windows 98 2ed on C and D drive. On one hard drive 40GB and
>XP
> Pro (E and F) on another hard drive 40 GB. I want to make XP pro the only
> op
> system. But when I remove the hard drive with 98 on it and try to reboot
> it
> will not come up. My intention is to leave XP Pro on the 40 GB drive make
> it
> C and D. and format the other drive. Any suggestions?
- Posted by akela on October 8th, 2005
Thanks,
I have switched the HD's so XP is now the master. And I have adjusted the
Boot.ini file so only XP comes up. But I see what you are saying that the
boot.ini is in C so I have to get is it boots to XP and does not look for the
other HD. You are right I will need luck. OH I have boot magic on XP can I
use this to change the drive letters around and then get rid of (*?
"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your boot files are on C, regardless of where the operating system files
> are. You would need to run fixboot from the Recovery Console without the
> Win98 disk installed, but that will only allow you to boot the XP
> installation. It will not allow you to change it to "C", to do that would
> require a start from scratch with no other lettered drives installed.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "akela" <akela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:28BACFF6-6772-49B6-90BC-F9D900F5EB80@microsoft.com...
> >I am running Windows 98 2ed on C and D drive. On one hard drive 40GB and
> >XP
> > Pro (E and F) on another hard drive 40 GB. I want to make XP pro the only
> > op
> > system. But when I remove the hard drive with 98 on it and try to reboot
> > it
> > will not come up. My intention is to leave XP Pro on the 40 GB drive make
> > it
> > C and D. and format the other drive. Any suggestions?
>
>
>
- Posted by Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers on October 9th, 2005
Hi,
No, regardless of anything else you cannot change the drive letter assigned
to the system installation.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"akela" <akela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:276E34C6-C4B5-4592-AE80-5750D00B8763@microsoft.com...
> Thanks,
> I have switched the HD's so XP is now the master. And I have adjusted the
> Boot.ini file so only XP comes up. But I see what you are saying that the
> boot.ini is in C so I have to get is it boots to XP and does not look for
> the
> other HD. You are right I will need luck. OH I have boot magic on XP can
> I
> use this to change the drive letters around and then get rid of (*?
>
> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Your boot files are on C, regardless of where the operating system files
>> are. You would need to run fixboot from the Recovery Console without the
>> Win98 disk installed, but that will only allow you to boot the XP
>> installation. It will not allow you to change it to "C", to do that would
>> require a start from scratch with no other lettered drives installed.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "akela" <akela@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:28BACFF6-6772-49B6-90BC-F9D900F5EB80@microsoft.com...
>> >I am running Windows 98 2ed on C and D drive. On one hard drive 40GB
>> >and
>> >XP
>> > Pro (E and F) on another hard drive 40 GB. I want to make XP pro the
>> > only
>> > op
>> > system. But when I remove the hard drive with 98 on it and try to
>> > reboot
>> > it
>> > will not come up. My intention is to leave XP Pro on the 40 GB drive
>> > make
>> > it
>> > C and D. and format the other drive. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
